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> It provides some revenue stream into Mozilla and it's a genuinely useful service. FF itself provides a massive revenue stream.
by seppel 6y ago
> It provides some revenue stream into Mozilla and it's a genuinely useful service.
FF itself provides a massive revenue stream.
- bayindirh 6y agoAFAIK that revenue stream is search provider agreements and it's no revenue stream. In current conjecture, it's Google giving them some money to keep Mozilla afloat so, they don't become a monopoly per se. Please correct me, if I'm wrong.
- stjohnswarts 6y agoHow can you have a revenue stream from a search engine if you don't have a browser to view said stream? Therefore firefox is critical to that agreement. Google absolutely gives them cashola for being the default search engine. Most people never change that so it is about a 90% sure thing for google to make money from firefox users. The other things is they can point and say "see we have competition and we're friendly with them even!"