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I'm quite upset about how even our open source spaces are getting enshittified :( (besides mozilla's previous problems) Honestly, I might just go back to qutebrowser
The unavoidable problem is that things cost money. Everything Mozilla does costs money, from hosting their website to paying developers. If they are giving away the software free to users, where is the money going to come from? Previously (and I think currently) a lot of that money is coming from Google, but being beholden to that one company is not ideal. So Mozilla has to look for alternate income.
I can at least empathize with the shitty position they are in where they have to find a way to monetize enough to exist, without becoming just like Google.
I recently checked and saw that over the span of 10 years, I have donated a lot of money to Mozilla. That stopped last year when they started pushing AI in their browsers that required opt out. They were listed in my will as a r 50% recipient of my estate, but has now been replaced by the EFF.
They are pissing off their main base for short term "profits".
I get that things cost money. But Wikipedia costs money too but they are fiercely user centric.
Firefox used to be. Likely due to pressures from Google and other ad companies. But still, they could do better.
Crowdfunding
Is a wonderful tool for raising capital for startups or large purchases. It's not a good source for reliable income once your project is no longer the new hotness.
Tell that to the massive donations KDE has been receiving recently once they made it easy to donate from within their software.