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I know I'm in the minority but I would pay yearly to use Firefox. Not sure how much I'd pay, but I am getting into the habit of purchasing software instead of allowing it to purchase me
You can donate to software development freely right now. This and many others developers
As far as I can tell you can't donate to Firefox specifically. I would if I could.
I could but I'd still be getting the same Firefox which has a nagging incentive to cooperate with advertisers and google. The benefit of having to pay for software is that their revenue stream comes directly from me and not from a 3rd party. It's not about supporting the developer for me, it's about knowing that the product I pay for is the product I get
Subscribe to their VPN. I don’t use it, but do it to support Firefox
Does the money for that go directly to the dev teams? I wouldn't want it to be swallowed up by Mozilla bureaucracy.
I bet most of the money goes to Mullvad because they run the actual VPN service. Mozilla just does the front end and user management.
That's rarely how donations work, though. Ultimately you need to have some level of trust that the people at the organisation you are donating to know a lot more about where, when and how your money can be effectively used than you do. Your pre-donation requirements/demands are extremely unrealistic and I'm not sure if people like yourself are genuinely delusional about this fact or if you just use it as some sort of moral bargaining tactic to never feel bad about the fact that you don't donate any of your money to the causes you supposedly really want to.
For me it comes down to “do I want pay for this product so it sticks around?”. If yes then I have to trust the org that makes it to be reasonably sensible. They’re probably going to do a better job of putting the money in the right place to stay in business than I am.
I, too, would pay. Probably $200/year. What I don't know is how much we need to keep up development.