Nobody is confused about how it's currently working. The whole complaint is that there isn't a way to donate towards Firefox and have any confidence that's where the money will go. There are a million social justice charities out there and zero dedicated to non-chromium browsers. A lot of people are disappointed by that. Anyone who wants to fund Afrofeminist conferences can do so directly.
Sure Mozilla can spend donations how it wants, but donors are free to not donate as well. For years many people have been saying that they want to support Firefox without all of unrelated social projects, but Mozilla has refused to offer that. I expect that a lot of potential donations have therefore not happened.
Re:Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google
by Hyperboreanal on Thursday March 13, 2025 @03:16AM
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It does entitle you to warn others not to waste their money by donating unless they're big fans of feminist African studies
Re:Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google
by subsistence234 on Thursday March 13, 2025 @04:50AM
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Quite a few people would donate for Firefox development, but they can't donate to Mozilla because Mozilla spends the money on other stuff. Until now, as Google's lapdog, Mozilla didn't need donations, so that wasn't a problem (for Mozilla, it did however result in firefox getting 2.62% market share).
Re:Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google
by Lanolderen on Thursday March 13, 2025 @05:19AM
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To reinforce this, I'm a stingy bastard but I'd give them 5$ a month if I could donate them to the browser development itself since it's the program I use the most.
> > All I ever wanted from Mozilla was a browser
Good for you. That's not how donations work.
If you donate money to an organization, you are supporting them in the work they do. How they approach that work and how they appropriate and prioritize funding is likely numerous people's entire jobs to figure out, and just because you put some money in the proverbial hat doesn't entitle you to a say in those conversations, nor does it entitle you to an explanation for the results of those conversations.
I don't precisely know why this conference was held, but that's because it is neither my job nor my business. I'm assuming it was a long, complex process to get it done, and I doubt they would've done it if the organizers just felt like getting a free trip to Zambia, or whatever other grievance-politics motive you're implying.