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Okay hear me out. What if we all chipped in 5 bucks to ? How many people would it take to fund it well enough so they don’t have to do layoffs? I get it, the FOSS community wants the “F” part (mastodon.social)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by brandonleedy@mastodon.social to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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Okay hear me out. What if we all chipped in 5 bucks to @firefox? How many people would it take to fund it well enough so they don’t have to do layoffs? I get it, the FOSS community wants the “F” part but we all should contribute some for good infrastructure. And the idea that search engine payments from Google is what keeps Firefox afloat should worry us all. We need browser engine diversity if the web is going to stay open and not littered with walled gardens any more than it already is.

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[–] Iceblade02@lemmy.world 50 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The only reason I don't donate to mozilla right now is that mozilla doesn't actually funnel any donation funds to firefox. I want to support firefox with donations, but I can't.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Exactly, 100%. Hell I'd drop them $100 a year forever if it all went to Firefox, and they didn't fuck around with stupid monetisation like pocket, adding AI, etc. I don't mind them selling a VPN, but I do mind that I can't use any VPN as a container proxy because of them selling a VPN.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Exactly.

There's a lot more ways Mozilla could make privacy-friendly features that don't restrict choice, so they should focus on those. I'm willing to pay if they make good products, but make it easy to pick something else instead.