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[–] 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Google funds fascist political campaigns

And Google funds Firefox, to the tune of basically their entire budget. They don't take individual donations.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    I literally donate to Mozilla every month, so...

    Is the point that you should go ahead and use chrome because Mozilla currently has a shitty funding model?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    You can donate to Mozilla , but those donations will not be used for Firefox development (no developer salaries, etc). Firefox is developed by a for-profit that only takes money through sponsorship deals like the Google search partnership. Your donations are used for everything else, including tens of millions of dollars of AI venture capital grants for example.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Okay, well assuming that is true, I'm not entirely sure what to do with that information. I ask again,

    Is the point that you should go ahead and use chrome because Mozilla currently has a shitty funding model?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Heavens no. Use a fork, and probably don't donate to Mozilla unless you agree with how they're spending your donations (i.e. not Firefox).

    I'd use Firefox over Chrome no question, but I'd use a decent fork of Chrome before Firefox.

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