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> I currently don't donate much to Mozilla because they keep making the experience worse time and again

Money donated to Mozilla isn't used to develop Firefox: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/

I'd be fine paying or donating to help Firefox development, but I can't.

I think money spent on VPN and mdn+ goes more directly to funding Mozilla. But I would actually prefer to see a Mozilla that tries to become fiscally independent of partnerships like Google and fully commit to the donation model (+ maybe selling a few products like VPN and mdn+) closer to what Wikipedia is doing.

Funding Mozilla is still a step removed from "used to develop Firefox". Mozilla has ridiculous overhead, including a 5 mil per year CEO salary.

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