wolfFirefox enables user tracking
jherazobThis is after they bought an ad company last month, Mozilla is compromised now
Mozilla is an advertising company now
This seems completely normal and cool and not troublesome in any way. Mozilla has acquired Anonym, a [blah blah blah] raise the bar for the advertising industry [blah blah blah] while delivering effective advertising solutions. [...] Anonym was founded with two core beliefs: [blah blah blah] and second, that digital advertising is critical for the sustainability of free content, services and ...
A bunch of Firefox devs need to leave Mozilla, fork it and start up an actual non-profit not based around monetization. I would happily donate monthly if I knew it were going to Firefox development, instead of the dozen other things Mozilla spends its money on. I’m sure I’m not alone.
You’re definitely not alone. If this happens and it becomes some major news in the community, I’m sure many people would support this.
Proton did something similar.
This poll shows promise: mastodon.neat.computer/@jonah/112654592627487236
Jonah Aragon (@[email protected])
Okay, lots of talk about Mozilla becoming an ad company (ew). Out of curiosity, *approximately* how much would you honestly pay for an open-source, privacy-respecting, bloat-free web browser? Something like Firefox, if you knew your money was 100% going towards Firefox development and not the pockets of Mozilla execs or their Pocket/AI/AdTech side ventures. #mozilla #browser #privacy #firefox #chrome [ ] $0 [ ] $5/month [ ] $10/month [ ] $15/month [ ] $20+/month
I think I would literally pay for a proton browser, if it isn’t just chromium.
All of these claims clash with the reality of so many core open source projects, used by private users and massive corporations alike, that rely on single voluntary developers or super small groups which receive no flowers and no donations.
yea. but they get to claim like they fund the opensource world. like come on… stop posting fake funding claims on an anonymous forum and hire yourself a developer team if you’re so invested in this.
But whaa… developers salary aren’t funded by your $2 dollar donations, even with 100s of donations. oh geez… who woulda thought.
In general I agree: Open source projects are super hard to monetize and too much work does not get donations, flowers or even thanks.
For Firefox specifically I am not so sure, especially when Thunderbird seems to be doing good with their donation based model.
As long as Firefox is run by Mozilla throwing millions at their incompetent leadership, I will not donate a cent to Firefox.
If Firefox would get forked by some developers I’ll happily donate money to them and given Firefox high visibility/importance, this might work out, like Thunderbird did.
There are some Firefox forks, but they tend to get outdated… / have slow update cycles
I like floorp
NaNYou can’t donate a cent to Firefox anyway, the Mozilla Corporation does not accept donations. Thunderbird is also developed by a for profit company under the Foundation, but does accept non-tax-deductible donations.
Is Librewolf already a Firefox without ad companies colonization ?
tmpodLibreWolf is little more than a custom config for Firefox, they don’t do actual development on the engine, which is the important and very technically laborious part.
In the meantime you can give a look to Servo project. If Servo is clean for you, you can support them.
I think it’s more because the Mozilla Corporation is a for-profit company and people barely understand the difference between the Corporation and Foundation or what the Foundation even does, or the rules that allow a non-profit to own a for-profit.