[Barrin92]

If the situation is so bad that Firefox is seen as necessary to prevent the internet being dominated by Google et al, there should be regulation that prevents those companies from privatizing the standards of the web.

It honestly doesn't seem reasonable to ask people to donate to a fundamentally commercial software product for the sole purpose of fixing a broken ecosystem. It's like as if Ford was starting to write laws and regulations for road usage and we'd start donating money to Volkswagen

[aleppe7766]

Totally agree, in theory. In practice US regulators are too short sighted, incompetent and possibly corrupt (in that they benefit from the status quo, and are heavily lobbied) to deal with the situation; also, if Firefox dies, it’s another thick nail in the web’s coffin.