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New Episode of Igalia Chats: Mozilla Changes
@igalia @bkardell @Meyerweb Why can't @mozillaofficial be funded by donations from companies like @linuxfoundation is doing? @servo and @ladybirdbrowser are backed by donations and they are making great progress.
@niutech @igalia @Meyerweb @mozillaofficial @linuxfoundation @servo It can be. There certainly are some companies who invest in contributing to Firefox, but I would say less than invest in WebKit or Chromium - and in all cases, all the rest of the world of companies that invest currently contribute a comparatively small fraction compared to what the maintainers are... Nothing preventing it except companies willingness to do it I guess
@igalia @bkardell @Meyerweb do you remember the web monetization thing? If there's something Mozilla could do to move the needle and make money I think it would be that. Say you pay 10€ a money, let up to 50% go to the sites you visit and they can keep the rest, or 70% or whatever. Because in the beginning it won't be many sites that have it enabled, so they get to keep basically all the revenue, while still being the good guy.
@igalia @bkardell @Meyerweb It might even break the ads strangle hold on the internet if it gets enough intrest.
Regarding their other offerings. We tried their VPN, which is just an white labeled Mullvad, and it kinda worked but the UX wasn't nice. It's a separate app, and not bundled with Firefox, and they don't tell you you need MAC, aka container tabs, in order to have separate VPNs per domain. And even then it's all manual. I just what all traffic to get routed to the sites origin country.
@igalia @bkardell @Meyerweb private rely is USA only still, right?
There's no family plan, and no Firefox One bundle. So I think they need to step up their game and make their commercial offering nice and not a hassle.
I mean, they have (had) this aura of a privacy champion, they could have used this and made a privacy bundle. All your traffic get VPNed, we monitor your accounts for breaches, and let others know about your GPG key (aka keyserver) we help you set up in Thundebird.
But no 
@nevonnen @igalia @bkardell @Meyerweb This is an interesting idea, thanks for bringing it up. Mozilla would have to become a Web Monetization provider with a special rule in place, but ... well, it's possible.
But the usual question applies: who the bleep do we talk to at Mozilla? Does even Mozilla itself know the answer to that question?