Wow, I didn't know that. This is perverse in several ways:

Funding for Firefox development comes from Google, which is pushing Chrome in such a way that is destroying the web.

Funding for Mozilla's non-Firefox projects probably comes mostly from Firefox users.

I want to donate to Mozilla exclusively for Firefox development - yet the only thing that my money will not be used for is Firefox, and I strongly disapprove of many of their other projects that my money would actually go to.

This is just a mess.

IIRC their mullvad resell vpn is run through the corp, so if you want to donate just to the product side of things, buying that service may be the clearest way.

But even then, there's no guarantees on how the money gets shuffled around.

If you want to support Firefox development financially, you can subscribe to Mozilla's commercial services: their VPN, and Pocket.

Am I literally the only person on earth who remembers that Mozilla promised to open-source Pocket when they acquired it? Why is nobody talking about that? Why aren't the usually-angry mob of mozilla haters up in arms about it?

I assume anyone who hasn't already disabled Pocket doesn't care about it being open-sourced.

But the VPN is worse than the service it rebrands. And I don't want to support the way they integrate or run Pocket (even though I mostly like Pocket).

That is even worse then. No wonder Mozilla is in decline and perhaps that is why several developers were let go two years ago when Google threatened to take away their lunch money. So Mozilla had to quickly relinquish their 'mission statement' and submit to the mercy of Google.

So as long as Google is funding Mozilla, and Firefox, their mission statement is beyond destroyed.

Mission failed successfully.

Oddly enough Mozilla has started to hire some developers for browser positions again (the job offers appear every now and then at pages like indeed).