<p>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.)</p><p>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</p>