Why, even FOSS needs support. See OBS Studio, Wikipedia etc. Without supports good projects go to waste.
- Developers can decide to introduce it in their apps or not. I am sure not every QT developer will adopt this.
- People will be able to opt-in, opt-out. I am pretty sure they provide us with an option.
- Most people do not donate, so an additional income thing could help.
- The other option would be crypto.
We are not talking about MS who introduce ads in Explorer which need some ad-blocking, hosts or registry hacks. Linux is more transparent and there will be options to control this.
Do I like it, nope. But it is better than alternatives to shutdown project because lack of funding or struggling to expand because only few people are willingly to donate.
Nonsense video, underlying problem is monopolies and private companies who develop the standards, not what browser you use.
If the standards are fully open, transparent and not concerning then it would make no difference if you use chrome and firefox because everyone would use same basis.
Also chromium team is not purchased or owned by Google, most volunteers are normal people, developers or security researchers that code on it in their free time. You can fork, modify the source as you please but that does not change the argumentation about web standards and how build or control them.