… in other words, Mozilla is bringing advertisements to the address bar.
What data is shared if you enable contextual suggestions?
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All this because Mozilla leadership still haven’t set up Firefox to take community funding directly, and instead want to use people’s donations on their irrelevant projects.
As I understand Mozilla’s legal structure, you cannot at present give money to Firefox at all.
Donations given to the foundation cannot be passed to the corporation. The irrelevant projects you mention (and there are a lot of them) come out of the Firefox profits so are eating the seed corn directly. I seem to recall off-hand that a lot of the donation money goes on grants to external organisations.
I’ve donated as much as $75/mo to neovim. I don’t donate as much nowadays but if I could donate to a specific dev working on furthering my interests in firefox, I would.
I wonder if something like Igalia’s open prioritization would work for Firefox itself.
We won’t know until they try. But for some points of reference: bcachefs which is still an out-of-tree alpha level project gets 2k/mth, WhatsApp in 2013-14 charging a dollar/yr (easily avoidable) was decently profitable, Wikipedia gets lots of donations annually even though they don’t really need it, neovim gets probably $50k/yr between various funding methods and neovim is relatively obscure. You can still ask for money on the internet and get a decent sum. With enough users like FF, they could definitely give it a go.
I’m sick of defending Mozilla. I’m sure there are passionate Firefox developers who care about privacy, but the management keeps kneecapping them with things like this. It’s too much to bear, and they’ve really crossed a line this time.
Bah, I’m done. I mostly use qutebrowser (sweetspot, daily driver) / nyxt (noscript docbrowser) / “ungoogled-chromium” (in desperate situations) and I want to quit the web browser anyway, the interesting part of the internet is moving off the web more and more anyway.
… in other words, Mozilla is bringing advertisements to the address bar.
You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
sigh at least I can turn it off.
All this because Mozilla leadership still haven’t set up Firefox to take community funding directly, and instead want to use people’s donations on their irrelevant projects.
As I understand Mozilla’s legal structure, you cannot at present give money to Firefox at all.
Donations given to the foundation cannot be passed to the corporation. The irrelevant projects you mention (and there are a lot of them) come out of the Firefox profits so are eating the seed corn directly. I seem to recall off-hand that a lot of the donation money goes on grants to external organisations.
And how many people would actually give Firefox money directly?
I’d give them $1/mo for sure. Maybe more, depending on what they did with it.
maybe if you could specifically give money to fund the useful parts like FTP and RSS support, and ALSA
I’ve donated as much as $75/mo to neovim. I don’t donate as much nowadays but if I could donate to a specific dev working on furthering my interests in firefox, I would.
I wonder if something like Igalia’s open prioritization would work for Firefox itself.
We won’t know until they try. But for some points of reference: bcachefs which is still an out-of-tree alpha level project gets 2k/mth, WhatsApp in 2013-14 charging a dollar/yr (easily avoidable) was decently profitable, Wikipedia gets lots of donations annually even though they don’t really need it, neovim gets probably $50k/yr between various funding methods and neovim is relatively obscure. You can still ask for money on the internet and get a decent sum. With enough users like FF, they could definitely give it a go.
Seems US only atm:
I’m sick of defending Mozilla. I’m sure there are passionate Firefox developers who care about privacy, but the management keeps kneecapping them with things like this. It’s too much to bear, and they’ve really crossed a line this time.
Bah, I’m done. I mostly use qutebrowser (sweetspot, daily driver) / nyxt (noscript docbrowser) / “ungoogled-chromium” (in desperate situations) and I want to quit the web browser anyway, the interesting part of the internet is moving off the web more and more anyway.
Could you elaborate, please? Are you talking about “the internet of things”?
Probably non-WWW protocols like Gemini.
I mean alternative protocols to http(s) and alternative ways to consume http(s) than a web browser.
Nothing mature or dominant yet but I feel most of the interesting tech is heading in a different direction.
how about I suggest that you stop with this stupid bullshit no one asked for?