Perhaps I am just a grumpy git.

Perhaps I am just an ungrateful grumpy git.

I want Free / open source software to be sustainable.

I am willing to spend money on this. I do spend money on this, when I can.

I understand that developers may have different ways of seeking sustainability.

I should - I think - be open to different developers coming up with different approaches.

But boy am I (still) struggling with Mozilla.

I can kind of understand setting a default search engine Google; at least I can change it to something more appropriate.

Shovelling AI, unwanted, into its browser, Firefox. I’ve had to tinker in about:config to turn that off, and I am not convinced that this will survive a new version / release.

Showing “sponsored” content, even though I am darned sure that I turned it off. This really irks me.

But perhaps I should just shrug my shoulders, and say “Well, I use Firefox, and if this is the price - if this is how Mozilla chooses to seek funding - then I should suck it up, and just change things i do not like.”

Or change to another browser, but then, as I’ve blogged before, I struggle with the notion of using a Firefox fork, since I’d still be dependent on Mozilla.

sigh.