There should be a paid ad free membership for anyone who doesn’t like ads. Even if not many people take them up on this offer, it would be more fair since there would be a choice.
Of course people can always fork it and remove it blabla. But we're talking about people who otherwise would donate and just want to do it more directly (as opposed to the whole Mozilla foundation)
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At this point, threads like this help me add to my list of what garbage i need to compile out every year or so when i feel like syncing up hahaha.
No donation will change that, it would require a strategic rollback from leadership.