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I'm baffled that despite years of asking, Mozilla doesn't have voluntary subscription option for the FireFox browser. I'm not interested in paying for VPN or any other related product but I definitely would be interested in directly supporting FireFox browser development. As a Web developer, paying for my tools is not an issue for me, conversely, I'd be happy to do it.

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It’s probably because they don’t think it would bring in enough revenue to be worth the effort. I don’t think it would either.

https://donate.mozilla.org/

Those go to the Mozilla Foundation, which is mostly an activist organization, not to the Foundation's for profitn subsidiary Mozilla Corporation, which actually develops Firefox. As far as I know, transferring money from the Foundation to MozCorp is hard. If you want to throw money at Firefox development, one of the Corp's paid products is the way.

The foundation exists mostly for tax purposes. They fully own the Mozilla Corporation.

Attempting to fund Firefox while hating the Foundation is entirely counter-productive.

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