I use Firefox and I like it (especially being able to use uBlock Origin), but I really dislike what Mozilla has become over the last ten years or so. I think that's the key distinction, I can mostly manage Mozilla's crap by turning off a bunch of stuff in my Firefox settings, but I think it's really important for the web to not use a Chromium based browser.

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s3p 5 hours ago | parent [-]

But they have to make money. Else they go away. I don't understand how people think Mozilla can just exist and be permanently solvent forever

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aragilar 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Then let me pay for Firefox. I don't need a resold Mullvad (which incidentally took forever to come to my country) or an AI chatbot (which seemingly are the options Mozilla provides to give them money), and donations to Mozilla don't go to Firefox. It took them ~20 years to work out that was the solution for Thunderbird, they shouldn't spend another 20 years flailing about for Firefox.

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cpburns2009 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Mozilla's not exactly short on funds. They take in at least $500,000,000 every year.

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AnonC 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

AFAIK, from reading the annual reports years ago, this nice sum of money belongs to Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit that works on making a better web. Mozilla Corporation, the for-profit entity that makes Firefox, doesn’t seem to have as much as it needs. Hence MDN Plus, Mozilla VPN, and other services.

	▲	dingaling an hour ago \| parent [-]
		That's their choice, nobody forced them to implement that corporate structure and they can decide to deconstruct it any time. Google pays Mozilla for default search engine selection in Firefox, no other product. If Mozilla then redirect that money to other non-Firefox ventures then maybe they should explain why.

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glenstein 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And it probably costs something like 80% of that to build and maintain a browser and they probably spend less than Google.

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tiahura 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Linus manages.

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stogot 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Look how they spend money, plenty of articles on it, and it makes me hesitate to donate