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Mozilla flamed by Firefox fans after promises to not sell their data go up in smoke
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this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2025
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No, that's a bullshit false dichotomy.
People would rather have Firefox developed ethically by a proper foundation that's supported by grants and donations even if its total operating budget is vastly lower. (It wouldn't be able to have a grossly overpaid CEO like Mozilla does now. Oh noooooooo....)
I'm fine with that, people should advocate that more. I don't disagree with you, but a lot of the coverage and commentary seems to reminicse about a nebulous "the way it was before" which wasn't ideal either.
Where are these grants coming from? They already take in donations and it's not nearly enough to pay the engineers. Sure I'd love it if the c-suite took a pay cut but the truth is that a modern web browser is a big enough project that it basically requires an enterprise-size team dedicated to its maintenance.
"They already take in donations..."
Where can I dontate to Firefox? Not Mozilla, and not a fund that goes to CEO-pay or other expences, but straight to Firefox
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/donate/
The Mozilla Foundation is the parent non-profit of the for-profit Mozilla Corporation.
But that's not donating to Firefox, that's donating to Mozilla, which I don't want to do, because they seem to be wasting their money.
If your concern is that the money goes to efforts for an open internet, and not too enriching any executives, then you want to donate to the non-profit, not the corporation.
But I don't want to donate to the "open internet" or the non-profit, I want to donate directly to Firefox. How can I ensure that the money I spend gets spent on that and only that?
Donate to the corporation. They're the people who work on the product.
What point do you think you're making here?
I feel like my point was pretty clear, but to spell it out: Mozilla is mis-managing their resources. I want to make sure the resources that I give to them only go towards what I consider to be worthwhile projects.
Right which is why I told you about the non-profit which is the organization that's dedicated to the open web. I feel like that's pretty clear.
Yeah, you were clear. I thought I was being clear when I said that I don't want to fund the "open web" as Mozilla defines it. I only want to fund Firefox development.
If you donate dire tly to firefox then mozilla would just contribute less and reserve more for CEO.