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Re:Microsoft pushes ahead with controversial ‘buy now, pay l... by mkl on Friday November 26, 2021 @06:46PM (#29355525)
> What might work is a browser funded by massive numbers of small user donations. That's the Firefox model.

That's not the Firefox model at all. Firefox development done by the Mozilla Corporation is primarily funded by search engine partnerships. Donations to the Mozilla Foundation (which owns the corporation) fund other initiatives instead, and are a much smaller amount.

https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/a98gmi/donations_t...

https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/ow9k0y/is_there_a_...

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Re:Microsoft pushes ahead with controversial ‘buy now, pay l... by tdsamardzhiev on Sunday November 28, 2021 @07:41AM (#29368473)
It's one particular search engine partnership cough cough.
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Re:Microsoft pushes ahead with controversial ‘buy now, pay l... by mkl on Sunday November 28, 2021 @07:56AM (#29368557)
Primarily, but there are others. Yandex and Baidu in 2020 and presumably still: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/15/21370020/mozilla-google-f.... Others in the past, not sure if any are still active: https://www.cnet.com/news/firefox-and-bing-together-at-last/. They're currently trialling Bing too: https://www.ghacks.net/2021/09/17/firefox-experiment-is-test...
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