To put it bluntly: both the Calyx Institute and Mozilla are grifters. They try to portray themselves as doing important work by using vague marketing phrases like Mozilla’s “keeping the internet free.”
In reality, both of these organizations are milking what little they have dry, while not reinvesting nearly any money they extract from people who don’t know better. Even when they “reinvest,” they sometimes simply launder the money by paying themselves to implement something nobody wants, like ethical ads or some usual Calyx privacy/security teather, such as the “panic button”.
The “privacy space” has a lot of these grifting companies: Unplugged, the Brax product family, Purism, etc. Its frustrating to see.
I’m not trying to single out Calyx. However, I see that people are inconsistently applying their standards, and for some reason, they let Calyx and Mozilla get away with much more than others.