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Patreon and Wikipedia are things people pay for that they can get for free. I have long wanted a way to directly find Firefox development and sustainability.
Wikipedia has a far wider reach, doesn't have competitors in quite the same way Mozilla does, and needs far less money than Mozilla.
It takes hundreds of millions every year to maintain a modern web engine, have top-tier security, etc. It's harder than maintaining an OS, even.
I just don't see enough people getting in on that.
You mention Patreon. Alright, let's go with that. The largest Patreon project by far earns less than $3m per year. Mozilla would need probably 150x that.