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Linux Foundation bands together Chromium browser makers in a “neutral space” (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 22 points 2 years ago (25 children)

donate to mozilla people

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Umm... no.

    If Mozilla needs more resources for their browser, they can stop paying their CEOs so much and replace analysts with engineers.

    They can also stop wasting their resources on projects nobody cares about.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (17 children)

    Yeah, because 500 M/year from Google are not enough. Gotta increase the CEO paycheck. Moreover, donations don't even fund FF development.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (16 children)

    and if more people donated they wouldn't need alternative sources of funding......

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  • [+] -16 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    Again, what you donate don't fund FF development but goes toward Mozilla's bullshit/activism/whatever/huge CEO paychecks. Who cares about that?

    I for sure don't. I will celebrate the day Mozilla disappears for good.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago* (8 children)

    It's weird to call for the disbandment of a relatively small company producing one of the major alternative browsers for what would otherwise be a monopoly.

    What is Mozilla doing that Google and Apple aren't doing but worse? Why direct all this negative energy at the small one keeping things tolerable?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    for what would otherwise be a monopoly.

    Firefox only gets funding from Google to prevent the US government from stepping in to break up a monopoly.

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  • [+] -9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Major alternative? At 2.x% market share? You people are very delusional. By the way, the shitty market share is exclusively Mozilla's fault, even if they're always complaining about evil Google (while they take that sweet 500 M/years from that evil company and waste them on anything but fixing their shitty browser). Mozilla is ascummy/scammy company that should have died years ago. I'll celebrate their fall.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    So because they take money from Google but don't effectively challenge the monopoly, they ought to be done away with? All Hail our Chromium overlords!

    I agree that the exec salaries could use a heavy trimming to the benefit of their actual R&D, but right now, they're the biggest challenger to the dominance of Chromium. They could be better, sure, but I'd rather have mediocrity than no choice at all.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2024/b200-mozilla-foundation-form-990-public-disclosure-ty23.pdf

    Mozilla CEO pay is $6M, and the rest of the board members are about $0.7M or less. Total executive compensation is a little under $10M.

    Their total revenue is $64M. By and large, the money is going toward developers and activism, which is where it should go.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    mozilla's activism is part of the reason why i donate

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I use Firefox (and forks) myself but wouldn't donate to it. It's like Wikipedia - a great project with a shitty parent company which'll spend all of your donations on shit projects.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It saddens me to see musk propaganda at work :(

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