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Re:For advertising: Firefox now collects user data by default by latexr on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @07:07AM (#40975399)
> How should browser development be funded?

One of the most common Mozilla complaints I see on the web is that you cannot fund Firefox development directly. People want to give money to it, but cannot.

Which makes sense, I guess. Anecdotally, Mozilla is by far the company I know with the most vocal users that get completely ignored.

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Re:For advertising: Firefox now collects user data by default by ninjin on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @07:43AM (#40975622)
Come now, let us be realistic, no one and nothing funds browser development other than advertisement:

https://ladybird.org/#sponsors

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Re:For advertising: Firefox now collects user data by default by latexr on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @07:58AM (#40975698)
That is provably false. Safari isn’t funded by advertising, neither is Orion, or LibreWolf, or any number of other smaller open-source browsers.
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Re:For advertising: Firefox now collects user data by default by mccr8 on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @05:04PM (#40980319)
According to news stories, Apple received $20 billion dollars in 2022 from Google to make Google the default search in Safari.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/2/24147007/google-paid-apple...

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Re:For advertising: Firefox now collects user data by default by latexr on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @06:16PM (#40980827)
Which is easy money that Apple uses for the company as a whole. They don’t make Safari because of Google’s money nor is it likely they would stop developing it if that money was no longer paid.
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Re:For advertising: Firefox now collects user data by default by rascul on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @10:08AM (#40976780)
None of those appear to be advertising companies.
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