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Google pay Mozilla Almost $1B for Firefox Search, Mozilla also need money even though they are trying to go by donations as much as possible. With time, as DDG

Google pay Mozilla Almost $1B for Firefox Search, Mozilla also need money even though they are trying to go by donations as much as possible. With time, as DDG is getting bigger and getting more revenue I think and hope that they will become the default instead!

BatFastard 9y ago
What is the monetization model of DDG?
- antimatter 9y ago
  Advertising. But not via tracking and personalization. They show ads to you based on the keywords you used to search and don’t follow you around the web.
- kerberos84 9y ago
  Ads of course. Bot not as greedy as google. Not tracking every fingerprint of you. They just show sponsored search results according to your search terms at that moment, in contrast to your whole browsing history/habits.
  - simias 9y ago
    I use ddg as my main search engine but disabled ads because I can't stand them. I wish they'd let me pay for the service. "If you're not the customer you're the product". I want to be the customer.
    - loceng 9y ago
      If you're willing to pay, you're likely worth more to advertisers..
- deleted 9y ago
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