I wonder if using a Mozilla corporation product like their VPN to support them is any different than donating to the Mozilla foundation. I would have went with Mullvad any day but choss Mozilla VPN just to support Mozilla. But if this money is not even being used to develop their software and instead being taken by their CEO or paid to random companies and political campaigns, then I will just switch to Mullvad.
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elouboub@kbin.social 1 year ago
And this is one of the many reasons I don't donate to Firefox. Firefox employees should really fork that project and make it better than what it is now instead of just being Google's dog + an excuse to pay millions to a single person and hundreds of thousands to random individuals, who have nothing to do with Firefox.
400M in cash could go to a lot of development efforts. They could rewrite Firefox entirely in Rust, make it run on any platform, move the needle on web technologies in a big way, hell, they could make their own damn phone with that kind of money, or even write their own competitor to ChromeOS.
But instead...
MagneticFusion@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Matt@lemdro.id 1 year ago
It is different. Funds donated to the Mozilla Foundation cannot be used for Firefox development because that is handled by the Mozilla Corporation. Money from the Mozilla services can be used for Firefox development, but there is still no guarantee that they won’t be used for something else. I wish there was a way to donate specifically to Firefox, but it seems like Mozilla tries to be unclear about how money is used.
Makeshift@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
just so you know, Mozilla vpn is just a repackaged mullvad vpn, they’re partnered
MagneticFusion@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That is exactly why I use it. I saw it as a great opportunity to have the most private VPN while also supporting Mozilla
Desistance@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The competitor to ChomeOS didn’t take off. So it was discontinued. An Indian company picked up the codebase and renamed it KaiOS. They now have an agreement to support each other to make it easier to uplift code and collaborate.
They also used that money to fund a lot of Open Source projects, like XiphOrg and AV1 development and Rust development just to name a few. Firefox itself already has a number of Rust components as the first consumer of the language.
Also every company out there uses their money for political agendas. It’s how they lobby to get favorable laws.
chaogomu@kbin.social 1 year ago
Instead, they're trying to keep governments around the world from banning the internet.
Think of all the really stupid laws to govern the internet that have been written by people who don't understand the internet. Then add in that Apple Google, Facebook, and every other major player in the space are pushing for laws to hurt their competitors, regardless of the damage it does to the open internet.
And Mozilla is one of the few organizations out there that says, "hey, let's just have an open and free internet".