and there were other serfvices that I can’t remember right now. And then there is all the money they redirect everywhere else for advocacy and other stuff that I don’t care at all about. If I donate to mozilla, I want to donate to firefox, not some random junk projects.
Pocket and VPN make money, that would be like firing IRS auditors in the name of efficiency.
I agree that general purpose AI isn’t really all that interesting, since I don’t think it is going to drive involvement or investment. I also imagine that it doesn’t really cost that much - they don’t have any real products behind it, and they all seem clearly experimental.
I guess I understand your aversion to contributing to “junk projects”, but if they are junk projects, there isn’t likely to be a ton of investment. Harder to shift the bottom line.
Last I checked pocket and VPN didn’t make that much, I was… somewhat? mistaken however, page 6 is relevant https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2024/mozilla-fdn-2023-fs-final-short-1209.pdf and indeed pocket + VPN are might actually be a significant amount of funding here, it’s hard to tell from just this since it’s lumped in with advertising.
Didn’t think anyone would subscribe to Pocket - a good proportion of the links require external subscriptions.
Sorry, but am not going down that route. Unless you’re telling me all the links to externals become free.
IIRC I tried a free trial of Premium but still had to subscribe to Medium etc. That put me right off. I might just as well subscribe to Medium and forget about Pocket.
off the top of my head,
and there were other serfvices that I can’t remember right now. And then there is all the money they redirect everywhere else for advocacy and other stuff that I don’t care at all about. If I donate to mozilla, I want to donate to firefox, not some random junk projects.
Pocket and VPN make money, that would be like firing IRS auditors in the name of efficiency.
I agree that general purpose AI isn’t really all that interesting, since I don’t think it is going to drive involvement or investment. I also imagine that it doesn’t really cost that much - they don’t have any real products behind it, and they all seem clearly experimental.
I guess I understand your aversion to contributing to “junk projects”, but if they are junk projects, there isn’t likely to be a ton of investment. Harder to shift the bottom line.
Last I checked pocket and VPN didn’t make that much, I was… somewhat? mistaken however, page 6 is relevant https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2024/mozilla-fdn-2023-fs-final-short-1209.pdf and indeed pocket + VPN are might actually be a significant amount of funding here, it’s hard to tell from just this since it’s lumped in with advertising.
Didn’t think anyone would subscribe to Pocket - a good proportion of the links require external subscriptions.
Sorry, but am not going down that route. Unless you’re telling me all the links to externals become free.
IIRC I tried a free trial of Premium but still had to subscribe to Medium etc. That put me right off. I might just as well subscribe to Medium and forget about Pocket.