Update the donation page

[8pen-s8urce]

I think the GitHub Sponsors link should be removed from the donation page because it redirects to a GitHub profile, instead of a GitHub Sponsors page. Also, the developer behind that GitHub profile wrote on his website the following:

"(I used to have links to recurring platforms such as Patreon and GitHub Sponsors, but have sunset use of those as of 2023.)"

Source: https://mike.tig.as/about/ (the "Tip Jar" section)

The Patreon link should also be removed because, according to the previous citation, the developer Mike Tigas doesn't use Patreon anymore and the Patreon account linked in the Onion Browser's donation page appears to be Mike Tigas' Patreon account, unless this Patreon account is still used to fund Onion browser development, even if Mike Tigas doesn't use it anymore for personal funding, or he was referring to another Patreon account on his website.

But I have a question: the PayPal link and the cryptocurrency addresses listed in the Onion Browser's donation page seem to be the funding methods of Mike Tigas, according to the funding methods he lists on his personal website, which is fine as he is one of the Onion Browser's developers, but the Monero address isn't listed on his personal website.

Is the Monero address still operational? If Mike Tigas doesn't own it, who does? Another Onion Browser developer? The Guardian Project? Is it an old funding method previously maintained by Mike Tigas, but not anymore, like Patreon and GitHub Sponsors? Sorry if this is too much to ask.

Mike Tigas personal website: https://mike.tig.as/about/

Another suggestion of mine is to list the Guardian Project's liberapay as one way to help fund the Onion Browser development because the Guarding Project developers also develop the Onion Browser.

The Guardian project's liberapay: https://liberapay.com/GuardianProject

Thank you for the Onion browser and any answer is welcome.

[tladesignz]

Oh, my. You're asking the hard questions there. And you're right, we should clean up the donations situation.

@mtigas, @n8fr8, let's discuss how we should structure this!

[tladesignz]

@mtigas, thumbs up are great, but can you also provide details what you changed and what should change in OB, therefore?

[mtigas]

Honestly, my preference would be to update the Onion Browser site to use only donation links / payment info that belong to Guardian Project, or whatever @n8fr8 (or others at GP) thinks is appropriate here. (As @8pen-s8urce points out, the liberapay for GP seems like a reasonable option.)

(I've paused using Patreon and Github Sponsors, and did remove several of the other one-off methods listed on my personal site; partially because of the new job I have and partially because of my personal inactivity on this project.)

[tladesignz]

@mtigas, thank you for your clarity!

@n8fr8, how can we link Onion Browser to the Guardian Project Liberapay account?

[tladesignz]

@n8fr8, and do we have any other ways to donate?