• FoxBJK@midwest.social
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    Firefox wants to rely on donations but in reality 90% of their funding comes from an advertising company.

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        Talk to anyone who works for a nonprofit. It’s really hard to find enough donors sometimes. You end up relying on a few really rich people because most of the community can only donate a couple bucks.

        If every Firefox user donated $4 per year they’d be a billion dollar company and wouldn’t need Google’s deal

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          That’s just sad. I hope my ~20$ a year that I donate to a few of my most needed OSS-projects are helping somewhat.

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      Firefox doesn’t even accept donations. Mozilla Foundation does, which is a related nonprofit, but it crucially does not fund any firefox development and legally cannot do so.

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        What, related nonprofit that can not legally fund Firefox development? What are you talking about? It’s literally developed by them.

        Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation.

        Wiki.

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          Yep… And you can’t donate to Firefox development. You’ll only fund the nonprofit and its goals, the money doesn’t go to Mozilla Corporation who do the actual development.

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      And almost no firefox user wants to admit that, among the other things Firefox is flawed for. But, “IT’S NOT GOOGLE” is their only rationale.