I’ve tried searching for an answer to this question, but to no avail. Debating whether to purchase Mozilla VPN or to go for Mullvad directly and then donate to Mozilla if they don’t make any money on the VPNs.
They do make money on the VPN, the annual financial statement note that subscription revenue includes the VPN revenue. How much the actual margin is probably a confidential part of the business deal, especially with Mullvad having similar contract with Malwarebytes, though that one will likely end since they’ve acquired a VPN company.
From a consumer point of view, just go to mullvad directly.
The mozilla VPN app is absolute buggy trash, doesn’t allow you to configure a VPN connection without the app, and freezes on the regular. The Mullvad app is far more stable. Plus gives you a lot of features that the mozilla version doesn’t support.
Mozilla use mullvad vpn!
Never had a single crash with MozWire: https://github.com/NilsIrl/MozWire
All browser makers engage in politics.
You can donate to Thunderbird because it is under a subsidiary of the Foundation which accepts donations whereas Firefox is under the Corporation who legally cannot accept them.
A lot of people feel misled by not making this distinction clear, and feels like a bait and switch. And there’s a difference between politics that directly holds a relationship between your product (privacy and user rights), political activism that is unrelated and more controversial (BLM for example, if I wanted to give money to BLM, I would had done so directly), and one that goes directly against their values like a free and open web (I still remember how they campaigned for punish for more censorship in youtube, that’s why I changed to Brave but came back because of V3 manifest). That’s why I donate to Electronic Frontier Foundation and not Mozilla, the later is not straightforward enough.