• TrickDacy@lemmy.world
      5·
      3 months ago

      Google funds fascist political campaigns and I don’t think Mozilla does. Seems worse to me than using shitter. And it doesn’t matter if you are using another chromium fork, Google is still getting more power to control web standards if you use a browser based on theirs.

      • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        Google funds fascist political campaigns

        And Google funds Firefox, to the tune of basically their entire budget. They don’t take individual donations.

        • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
          6·
          3 months ago

          I literally donate to Mozilla every month, so…

          Is the point that you should go ahead and use chrome because Mozilla currently has a shitty funding model?

          • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
            6·
            3 months ago

            You can donate to Mozilla , but those donations will not be used for Firefox development (no developer salaries, etc). Firefox is developed by a for-profit that only takes money through sponsorship deals like the Google search partnership. Your donations are used for everything else, including tens of millions of dollars of AI venture capital grants for example.

            • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
              3·
              3 months ago

              Okay, well assuming that is true, I’m not entirely sure what to do with that information. I ask again,

              Is the point that you should go ahead and use chrome because Mozilla currently has a shitty funding model?

              • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
                2·
                3 months ago

                Heavens no. Use a fork, and probably don’t donate to Mozilla unless you agree with how they’re spending your donations (i.e. not Firefox).

                I’d use Firefox over Chrome no question, but I’d use a decent fork of Chrome before Firefox.