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Okay hear me out. What if we all chipped in 5 bucks to ? How many people would it take to fund it well enough so they don’t have to do layoffs? I get it, the FOSS community wants the “F” part (mastodon.social)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Okay hear me out. What if we all chipped in 5 bucks to @firefox? How many people would it take to fund it well enough so they don’t have to do layoffs? I get it, the FOSS community wants the “F” part but we all should contribute some for good infrastructure. And the idea that search engine payments from Google is what keeps Firefox afloat should worry us all. We need browser engine diversity if the web is going to stay open and not littered with walled gardens any more than it already is.

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[+] DangerousInternet 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Security and performance are hard to measure but it's at least questionable that they're behind in either.

AI has many good uses, for example the local translation capability that allows for privacy-preserving translations of websites is AI and already in Firefox, and makes it possible to translate in environments that do not allow sending data out for security reasons.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Security and performance are hard to measure but it's at least questionable that they're behind in either.

Firefox misses multiple security features Chromium had for years, altough they did add some like site isolation though mutliple processes. The following link showed up first after searching. [1]

Security isn't everything though. I love how Firefox has local translations, which I've wanted for many years.

[1] https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.html#sandboxing