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Switching to duckduckgo would've made sense but would've required some faith I guess.

• hdhzy 9y ago
  I think it's more about the money and this kind of faith does not bring any money. For the record I don't mind Mozilla's decision.
• macspoofing 9y ago
  No. It would have required forgoing most of their current revenue.
• mrweasel 9y ago
  The money from Yahoo, now Google, is also a huge source of revenue for Mozilla (if not the main source). DuckDuckGo can't afford to fund the development of Firefox and Google isn't going to throw money at Firefox, if their search isn't the default... Well maybe a little, just to keep a competitor around and avoid anti-trust legislation. Honestly I doubt the average user would notice if DuckDuckGo was the default, except perhaps for a few rephrasing of a few search queries.
  • keypusher 9y ago
    It's not just the main source, it's nearly the entire source. (~98%) > Back in 2014, the last year of the Google deal, that agreement brought in $323 million of the foundation’s $330 million in total revenue.