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by alcoholic_byte 2139 days ago
When you go to https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/ and you click on "Donate" you are directed to https://donate.mozilla.org/en-US/ .

The sidebar on the donation-page clearly states:

"We are proudly non-profit, non-corporate and non-compromised. Thousands of people like ...."

So I think donations are in good hands there.

3 comments

That's the Mozilla Foundation. Firefox is developed by the Mozilla Corporation, which is a for-profit entity wholly owned by the Foundation and with separate funding. In fact millions of dollars are transferred from the Corporation to the Foundation in royalties every year. Donating to the Foundation does not fund Firefox development!
If you want to support just Firefox, and not the other Mozilla initiatives, there's no way to do that. People reasonably do not agree with the other things Mozilla spends their money on.
Donations went to paying Mitchell Baker millions of dollars per year, and all the other execs.