lukewarm take: funding a browser via voluntary individual donations will not work. browers are too expensive. (could they be cheaper? maybe, but there is a lot of essential complexity.)
browsers need a bigger funding structure. the only appropriate strategies that i know of are ads (all of them), product sales (apple could do this) and taxation. i would prefer the latter (i.e. the eu funds a browser), but barring that i do not fault companies using other strategies
Andy Wingo
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2024-09-19 08:48:41 UTC
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