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Now that we know that Firefox is in danger (and by extension the open web), we as a community must now vote with our wallets - let Firefox fend for themselves and be overtaken by a monoculture, or support Mozilla financially.

I ask that Mozilla think about having the option for a monthly subscription model. No extra features for paying (e.g $5/month for Firefox), but at least as paying users we will know that it's helping to support the open web and the survival of Mozilla as a whole.

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I would absolutely not donate a single cent to Mozilla, so that their CEO can keep the 2.5 million/yr salary. Because that's what the donation would be really.

First the CEO, and other executives, get 100% of their salary (millions $ per year). And if there isn't enough money to pay the developers then the community should pay them? No way. If there isn't enough money to run the company then there isn't enough money to pay such high salaries.

Donations do not go to the CEOs salary or anything Mozilla Corporation related. They go to the Mozilla Foundation and are used to work on global internet policy and education.

Donate here: https://donate.mozilla.org/en-US/

Hire Mozilla to be your VPN here: https://vpn.mozilla.org/

Those are actionable ways to support them right now.

Me personally donating isn't going to make any difference, but put a "subscribe" UI as part of the regular interface so a big group of people pay each month, then I'm happy for them to take my money.

Subscribe to the VPN then.

Not available in most countries.

Yay, I need a VPN to subscribe to the VPN that I had no need for.

I'd be absolutely ok to have yearly subscription for Firefox that ensures no braindead UI changes are shoved down.

This is the problem though. I want to support Firefox and MDN. If I donate to Mozilla, the majority of my donation will not go to these efforts.

If they let us decide which parts of Mozilla we wanted to support with our donation, then I would do it.

I am not going to financially support an organisation that redistributes its resources to political affiliated groups. Why would I support an organisation that encourages censorship and works together with the ADL to bring thought and information control to social media platforms?

Why would I support mozilla, when they make donations on my behalf to the OPSEC of the so called radical left through riseup.net (So called because all these groups work in the interrest of american corporatism).

When Mozilla goes bottom up, and something new springs from its rotten carcass, then I will consider contributing financially to a free and open internet.

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