What would you suggest then? They've been unable to sustain themselves via donations alone.
Mozilla has to generate enough revenue to continue developing their products somehow. It would be nice if donations were enough to cover those development costs but that simply isn't the case. Because of this the ad networks are a necessary "evil".
Here's the information about it. It's anonymous and It can be turned off https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attribution?as=u&utm_source=inproduct
I just recently had a wfh user ship me one of his monitors back because we had exhausted every thing I could think of troubleshooting-wise. When it arrived I unboxed it, plugged it in and the damn thing worked fine. I followed up with him and finally realized he had been trying to push the damn power LED instead of the actual power button.
Meanwhile Windows regularly gets hung up for several minutes on the "shutting down..." screen for no fucking reason. Only happens when I'm in a hurry too.
On top of that the actual article is a big nothing-burger. Not worth reading beyond the title.
I love it. My cat routinely walks through the room I'm in every 20-30mins giving me little chips along the way.
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