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Let me pay for Firefox

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803 points csmantle | 1 comments | 13 Jul 25 08:38 UTC | HN request time: 1.651s | source
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MzHN ◴[13 Jul 25 09:38 UTC] No.44548880[source]▶
Yes! My pet peeve is people keep saying "no one would pay" or "it wouldn't work" but the thing is, as far as I know, it has never been tried.

For example Thunderbird is fully funded by donations.[1]

Of course Thunderbird's budget is in a different magnitude than Firefox but I'd guess the amount of users is also in a different magnitude.

[1] https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/05/thunderbird-is-thriving...

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rvz ◴[13 Jul 25 10:00 UTC] No.44548993[source]▶
First of all, your donations to Mozilla don't go to funding the browser.

Even if they did, it isn't even enough to sustain the company to continue developing the browser.

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1. MzHN ◴[13 Jul 25 10:10 UTC] No.44549055[source]▶
> First of all, your donations to Mozilla don't go to funding the browser.

This is exactly my point. They should establish direct Firefox donations. I agree that it won't change anything overnight, but they need to start somewhere.