Wish this was an article rather than a video.
x2 speed exists 😉
I’m curious about what @ryanleesipes@mastodon.social said about funding (can’t remember where in the video). There was some mention of Google’s money being a smaller percentage of the total funding and it’s not clear what that means. If it’s just “Google is giving us 400 million instead of 500 million”, that’s not really an issue, honestly. Companies I worked at had way less revenue than that and been able to do a lot with that (by underpaying people too, of course).
What I can say with absolute certainty is that if Mozilla were single focus “We make a web browser and that’s it!”, money donated to Mozilla went to everything related to browsers e.g experiments for new browsers, writing a new browser engine in rust, making the engine embeddable in just about anything, providing an API to the browser for testing, experimenting with new languages in the browser, making the browser run on every platform and arch, expanding web standards for the new challenges ahead, and all that, I’d donate. But right now, Mozilla invests in ads, in collecting data, in AI, in paying CEOs millions, and a bunch of other shit tangentially, and quite often not at all, related to browsers. It’s like donating to the Breast Cancer foundation, expecting the majority of your money to go to research and finding out 80% of it goes to marketing, 18% to “awareness”, and 2% to research. No fucking way is my donation going there.
