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The Mozilla Foundation minus Firefox doesn't seem like a good use of charitable funds compared to say, the EFF. For example, they funded this hit piece on P2P technology [0] and a browser extension to solicit complaints about YouTube recommendations [1]. Meanwhile they're laying off key developers and gutting the future of their core product, while paying execs bloated salaries to manage this array of white elephant advocacy projects.

[0] - https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/fellow-research-decen...

[1] - https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/regrets-reporter...



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