I know this sounds bad, but maybe this is a blessing in disguise. Necessity is the mother of invention and maybe browser technology should be funded by governments instead of privately owned advertising megacorps?
I know this sounds bad, but maybe this is a blessing in disguise. Necessity is the mother of invention and maybe browser technology should be funded by governments instead of privately owned advertising megacorps?
That would require us, the users, to donate more.
No it wouldn’t.
Stop being a useful idiot.
We happily would if we knew it was going to devs
Or them to charge for it, or take more money from, say, Alphabet, for services rendered.
Any of those options will get its users on the barricades. FF will always be in the hot chair.
In the end you’re right, sufficient donations would be the best way.
(And yeah, they made some really dumb decisions. What about Google, Apple and Microsoft? Do they not pay the wrong people?)
I don’t consider that as “walking by themselves”. Plus, maybe you aren’t aware that FF is managed by Mozilla Corp (not the foundation), which can’t legally take donations. Thus. The money you donate doesn’t find FF development. Last, I’m not an user and I’m not going to donate. I couldn’t care less. Mozilla did this to themselves. They can disappear tomorrow, as far as I am concerned.
What DO you use? There’s literally three usable browsers out there, one mismanages its finances, one is Apple and one is responsible for the entire web browsing experience turning to shit because they run the browser that everyone uses so they can just ignore the W3 specs and other browsers get the blame when they don’t adopt Google’s tracking-riddled APIs.