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@hayo@infosec.exchange Nothing will get them half a billion dollars a year unless they run adtech themselves.

We need a browser (Firefox fork is ok) funded by the commons for the common good.

@aral @hayo that thought was literally just going through my mind.

It would be great if every user was to donate $10 a year to know that it would stop these dodgy back room deals. But it feels at the moment that it would just top-up that billion, not replace it.

It also brings on the thought... what could Mozilla achieve if they then didn't have that corporate sponsor pressure?

Aral Balkan

@nbwpuk @hayo@infosec.exchange Mozilla is Mozilla. It is what it is. And it’s very successful (half a billion dollars a year successful; pay their CEO millions successful).

What is needed is an alternative that is funded differently to begin with and with limits on what it can and can’t do (can’t be sold; must uphold its social mission; cannot take money from surveillance capitalists, etc.)

And we can fund it, as an independent non-govt organisation, with our taxes.