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Re:Google is a monopoly. Breakup may be coming; what comes a... by cardanome on Thursday August 15, 2024 @05:33PM (#41260598)
I absolutely would have donated large sums of money to Firefox development if they had allowed me to do so. Sadly you can only donate to the Mozilla Foundation which does a lot of other stuff. Wikipedia shows that projects can get very stable funding through donations.

Browsers offer incredible value. If there is need people will pony up the money. Many corporations have an business interest in keeping the web free and easily accessible so could serve as potential sponsors. Just like some newer programming language get baking from different companies and manage to stay independent. You just don't want to have one company having total influence.

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Re:Google is a monopoly. Breakup may be coming; what comes a... by throwaway87483 on Thursday August 15, 2024 @06:29PM (#41261140)
AFAIK, the foundation only does "other stuff", and the development is fully funded by the corporation (i.e. Google), so you can't really sponsor Firefox development at all, except by buying unrelated services like Pocket and the VPN (and who knows where your money goes then).
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