Comment by professor_v
6 days ago
With 81% [1] of their revenue in 2022 provided by Google...
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[1] https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2022/mozilla-fdn-202...
6 days ago
With 81% [1] of their revenue in 2022 provided by Google...
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[1] https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2022/mozilla-fdn-202...
Yes, but they have successfully been shrinking that down from 94% in 2016.
Long road towards independence, but moving in the right direction at least.
And the default spot in the search bar is valuable to people outside of Google. Even if we assume that Google is overpaying, Mozilla could keep operating as is with another entity paying significantly less...
And Google will pull out of the deal when they are forced to split off chrome
Why would they? They still want people to use Google Search vs other alternatives.
Google's payment to Mozilla was ruled anti-competitive and is forced to stop paying them.
https://fortune.com/2024/08/05/mozilla-firefox-biggest-poten...
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The only reason they pay firefox is to make sure its not killed and they can tell the regulators that look there some competition.
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