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Wikipedia's campaign worked well enough that I now donate monthly. I'd rather Mozilla bugged me in-browser about setting up a monthly donation rather than paying marketing people to craft statements to explain these kind of bs decisions.

[orev]

Ask any open source project how many donations they get and it might be just barely enough to run the severs, if they’re lucky, and not nearly enough for much else. The idea that large OSS projects can be supported by individual contributor donations (or the other terrible idea: selling stickers or t-shirts) is just not in touch with economic reality.

Mozilla’s handling of this situation is really a problem, but it’s not hard to understand that they need to find sustainable ways to make money if they want to continue their mission.