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Sure but that's just a symptom not a cause. Even without making Mozilla turn into a regular non profit that just happens to have a browser project (as opposed t

Sure but that's just a symptom not a cause. Even without making Mozilla turn into a regular non profit that just happens to have a browser project (as opposed to a browser project non profit), the strategy they had just couldn't work. Every monetization attempt failed (even with stuff centered around "privacy", a niche where Firefox is well known). I've seen numbers that indicated that the Mozilla foundation donations are almost equal to what they profit from their commercial products.

lolinder 2y ago
> Every monetization attempt failed (even with stuff centered around "privacy", a niche where Firefox is well known) Again, though: they have yet to try the obvious, which is allowing people to donate to Firefox. I have zero interest in supporting all the random distractions that Mozilla engages in, but if they gave me a donation box for Firefox specifically I'd set up a recurring payment today. They can't in good faith claim to have tried every monetization method when they have never let users earmark funds for Firefox.