Their text:

Hello, Happy New Year! I am excited to share some fantastic news to start 2024: we reached our goal of raising $3,300,000 USD in grassroots donations from the Mozilla community before the end of 2023!

Here’s how the Mozilla community came together in the final six weeks of the year:

An incredible 34,667 of us made a donation to reclaim the internet since Giving Tuesday, including 14,972 who made their first-ever gift to Mozilla; More than 3,000 of us donated our voices to Mozilla Common Voice, recording more than 90,000 clips to make voice recognition systems more accessible; And 1,181 of us started a monthly gift to sustain Mozilla’s non-profit work. Because of this support from the Mozilla community, we’ll be able to do even more of what Mozilla does best: holding irresponsible tech companies accountable, advocating for your privacy, and investing in the people, ideas, and organisations who will help reclaim the internet.

Thanks for everything you do for the internet.

Ashley Boyd Senior Vice President, Global Advocacy Mozilla

  • kbal@fedia.io
    261·
    1 year ago

    It’s not difficult to understand why Mozilla has become difficult to root for. This is the news story more people heard about so far this year: https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/02/mozilla_in_2024_ai_privacy/

    “… exploring ways to better integrate advertising while adhering to our focus on privacy and choice”

    I still do root for them of course, since there aren’t really any other web browsers. But they’re not making it easy.