[majjgepolja]

See I am not American and don't care about American culture war, Republican Democratican, or whatever you guys are using as an excuse to burn down buildings.

It's plain wrong to put banner ads in third world countries like Brazil and India, sounding like wikipedia doesn't have money to run their servers.

It's plain wrong to funnel that money to executives.

People who make wikipedia great aren't even involved with this. They have enough money to run servers, and a potential donation doesn't create additional content. They are trying hard to hide that fact with some clever wording.

This is textbook example of __dark pattern__ which highly privacy focused people love to point out when a bootstrapped startup collects telemetry data from their little application.

The Wikipedia fundraising effort is sounds like a metric driven C suite executive desperately trying to make charts "stonk".