We can cherry-pick projects too.

Lemmy barely gets enough donations to fund a single developer.

core-js, one of the largest JavaScript libraries, was cussed out for even having the audacity to ask for donations.

Donations aren't the steady source of income you seem to be thinking they are.

Jellyfin is not even in the ballpark of what Firefox is. A web browser is a giant OS at this point.

Blame the ones who need to be blamed - "leftist" women CEO capitalists who took over Mozilla once Brendan Eich stepped down. They ate Mozilla from the inside out. Their overwhelming focus on politics over software has helped cause this. And it shows, because they have been focusing on things like deplatforming, AI, Pocket, for years now. Bikini photo ops as malicious heads of Mozilla are cool for women I guess.

The truth is, the combination of relying on political wings (left or right) for development and opting to use Chrome based browsers has caused this. Donations would have been sucked away by those CEO leeches.

Again you ignore words like “often”. There certainly are projects that are doing extremely well, and I am happy for them, i am one of those donating.

Yet you ignore the funding problem that exists in open source. You can’t make it go away by naming a few that have done well for themselves. Even those that are doing well enough, what could they achieve, if they had comparable funding to bigger players that are advertising? I am not saying that it’s the option that everybody should go for, but if one chooses to, i would like it to be privacy respecting, and thats where hopefully mozilla will come in. And outside of opensource, on a “normal” persons phone, how many apps are funded via ads? Wouldn’t it be great if those were privacy preserving instead? It’s a step in the right direction.

I will stop replying to you, as you don’t seem mature enough to hold a respectful discussion, without trying to frame my opinions as trying to be manipulative.