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Re:In a swipe at Chrome, Firefox now blocks ad trackers by d... by srtjstjsj on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @03:34AM (#20874834)
Money is fungible. You could donate simply to keep them afloat regardless of their campaigns, in acknowledgement that the sum total of their activities is a massive positive that doesn't need nitpicking.

Otherwise, you can recruit and hire someone to write the features you approve of.

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Re:In a swipe at Chrome, Firefox now blocks ad trackers by d... by liability on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @03:50AM (#20874916)
If I give Mozilla more money than they were anticipating, will they put it aside for a rainy day? Or will they expand their ambitions to fit their new budget and find themselves impoverished again next year?

Money is fungible but budgets have a nasty habit of being elastic.

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Re:In a swipe at Chrome, Firefox now blocks ad trackers by d... by ryacko on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @04:13AM (#20875033)
Mozilla can go a full year without revenue currently (their financials are public). I wish more of their meeting minutes were public though.

https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2017/mozilla-fdn-201...

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Re:In a swipe at Chrome, Firefox now blocks ad trackers by d... by TeMPOraL on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @04:09AM (#20875013)
Money is fungible only if there's more money in each budget than money donated for that budget. If there was total $N donations explicitly marked "for Firefox", but Firefox budget could only use $M < $N, then the remaining $(N - M) isn't free to be reallocated to a different budget.
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