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Kind of curious, how much money have you given them and how did you give it?

by ct0 5y ago

fuzzer37 5y ago
Kind of curious, how much money has Mozilla spend on BS unrelated to their core product over the last 10 years?
- Nextgrid 5y ago
  When it comes to donations, all of it. As far as I know, donations go to the Mozilla Foundation while the browser is developed by the Mozilla Corporation.
- ct0 5y ago
  I am sure you could look that up and spin it anyway you see fit. Generally curious if donation support is commonplace considering the income of these companies based on gsearch payments is quite large. Mozilla has tried a number of things, which is quite common for any tech company as the talent needs to build to learn and grow. Based on your posting history, I am sure you would just throw gas on the closest fire you see.
rank0 5y ago
Definitely less than $100 via past pocket subscription and Firefox vpn. Wanted to support the org but canceled both. I hated pocket and realized the vpn service is just a mullvad resale.
- ct0 5y ago
  I didnt realize that pocket was a subscription service. What did you hate about it? I took the other approach, recently subscribed for a year of nextDNS and starting paying for mullvad.
  - rank0 5y ago
    Well they have a free version and paid subscription with extra benefits. I can't remember exactly why because this was years ago, but I just didn't find it useful beyond a simple bookmarking system. Not worth the annual/monthly fee. It's also just bloat in the browser and given how resource hungry FF is nowadays I just don't want unnecessary shit in my browser. I was actively looking for ways to fund Mozilla via purchasing their products. I WISH they could survive without Googles boot on their neck. I can just see the writing on the wall the org is dying and it seems that management is to blame. I will continue to use FF on Linux, but on my Mac devices safari/orion are just so much more performant. I really noticed when I started watching memory consumption. FF is bloated and huge. I wonder if they should go all in on desktop linux and heavily optimize performance on linux systems. That way they can retain their niche of power users and also help advance FOSS consumer-facing software.

Kind of curious, how much money have you given them and how did you give it?

by ct0 5y ago

Kind of curious, how much money have you given them and how did you give it?

fuzzer37 5y ago

Kind of curious, how much money has Mozilla spend on BS unrelated to their core product over the last 10 years?

Nextgrid 5y ago
When it comes to donations, all of it. As far as I know, donations go to the Mozilla Foundation while the browser is developed by the Mozilla Corporation.
ct0 5y ago
I am sure you could look that up and spin it anyway you see fit. Generally curious if donation support is commonplace considering the income of these companies based on gsearch payments is quite large. Mozilla has tried a number of things, which is quite common for any tech company as the talent needs to build to learn and grow. Based on your posting history, I am sure you would just throw gas on the closest fire you see.

rank0 5y ago

Definitely less than $100 via past pocket subscription and Firefox vpn. Wanted to support the org but canceled both. I hated pocket and realized the vpn service is just a mullvad resale.

ct0 5y ago
I didnt realize that pocket was a subscription service. What did you hate about it? I took the other approach, recently subscribed for a year of nextDNS and starting paying for mullvad.
- rank0 5y ago
  Well they have a free version and paid subscription with extra benefits. I can't remember exactly why because this was years ago, but I just didn't find it useful beyond a simple bookmarking system. Not worth the annual/monthly fee. It's also just bloat in the browser and given how resource hungry FF is nowadays I just don't want unnecessary shit in my browser. I was actively looking for ways to fund Mozilla via purchasing their products. I WISH they could survive without Googles boot on their neck. I can just see the writing on the wall the org is dying and it seems that management is to blame. I will continue to use FF on Linux, but on my Mac devices safari/orion are just so much more performant. I really noticed when I started watching memory consumption. FF is bloated and huge. I wonder if they should go all in on desktop linux and heavily optimize performance on linux systems. That way they can retain their niche of power users and also help advance FOSS consumer-facing software.