2 ms·
Mods: this needs to be tagged 2018. This article is now a year and a half old. > Google already runs a lot of my online life–it’s my email, my calendar, my go-
by newscracker 7y ago
Mods: this needs to be tagged 2018. This article is now a year and a half old.
> Google already runs a lot of my online life–it’s my email, my calendar, my go-to map, and all my documents.
I’d rather the author take care of this with urgency, in addition to switching from Chrome to Firefox.
Firefox Focus is one of the best things from Mozilla in the recent years. I use it more than any browser (including Firefox itself).
I’ve asked around before, but didn’t get a satisfactory answer. Mozilla Corporation (the one that funds Firefox development) gets more than 90% of its revenues from its search partnership with Google. So Firefox is, in a way, aligned to promoting Google to survive. If there were ways to fund Firefox more widely (not through some limited VPN service tie ups), that could make Mozilla bolder. Someone pointed out that while there’s an official Facebook Container extension for Firefox, there is no official Google Container extension. The Google Container is not created by Mozilla.
I’d really want to support Firefox (and related) development directly. In my understanding this is not possible because donations on mozilla.org go to Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit that works on open web initiatives and education.