Damn, I didn’t know that. Now I’m sad.
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FoxBJK@midwest.social 11 months agoFirefox wants to rely on donations but in reality 90% of their funding comes from an advertising company.
waka@feddit.de 11 months ago
FoxBJK@midwest.social 11 months ago
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 $4 per year they’d be a billion dollar company and wouldn’t need Google’s deal
waka@feddit.de 11 months ago
That’s just sad. I hope my ~20$ a year that I donate to a few of my most needed OSS-projects are helping somewhat.
YoungPrinceAmmon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Google they mean
soulifix@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
capacitor@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Not being chromium based is quite a big deal, however.
amju_wolf@pawb.social 11 months ago
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.
afunkysongaday@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What, related nonprofit that can not legally fund Firefox development? What are you talking about? It’s literally developed by them.
Wiki.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, you should look up what Mozilla Corporation is and who employs those Firefox developers.
Mozilla Foundation owns the trademarks and runs the infrastructure. Firefox developers are employed by for-profit Mozilla Corporation.
PS: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_Wikipedia
amju_wolf@pawb.social 11 months ago
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.