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Firefox added ad tracking and has already turned it on without asking you (mastodon.social)

submitted 1 year ago by azdle@news.idlestate.org to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah interesting. I didn't know. I started using Firefox as a kid around version 2.

I totally want Firefox to make money, but I wonder if donations couldn't be a significant part of that pie today. It seems a lot more people would prefer to donate to Firefox than Mozilla.

[–] Auzy@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah. Maybe I'm just old (I'm 40).

I would be happy to donate. But, the reality is.. donations don't work in my experience. One of my projects went FrontPage on all the major tech sites (and even was mentioned in Linux format magazine).

I got $300 in donations.

$250 was from a person I knew...

Backend projects often get screwed more, and I guess you probably need to hope you get supported by companies like Redhat ultimately. This may be why in my case. But backend projects always have people dissing them (frontend projects just need to look good and markety)

I think what's more important is that it's open source to be honest. We're actually lucky we still have Mozilla honestly.

In Mozilla browser days (after Netscape), id imagine it would have been a struggle to get a good pay. The people still there I suspect took a massive risk, and could have moved to lots of other companies like Google instead quite easily

I think they deserve to get rewarded..