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>Firefox makes their money through search engine placement and donations I have to assume you wrote this in good faith, however, this is a circuitous way of de
by jimmydorry 6y ago
>Firefox makes their money through search engine placement and donations
I have to assume you wrote this in good faith, however, this is a circuitous way of describing how Mozilla / Firefox makes its money.
It comes directly from Google! One can easily imagine a future where Firefox must implement FLoC to continue receiving that money.
- paulryanrogers 6y agoWhile it has largely come from Google they have at times and in some markets had other search defaults.
- freebuju 6y agoProbably won't be able to afford their top-dollar CEO if Google ever pulled the rug. Mozilla is totally dependent on this search deal.
- DaiPlusPlus 6y ago> One can easily imagine a future where Firefox must implement FLoC to continue receiving that money. I can see them getting a good offer from Bing... Does Mozilla have an endowment? I would hope that they’d keep at least $10m in endowment so that they can sustainably continue to fund minimal development to keep the engine and browser up-to-date w.r.t. security and W3C spec changes.
- freebuju 6y ago> I can see them getting a good offer from Bing MS has no incentive to make any such deal. FF marketshare numbers having been tanking so bad, even the newer Edge browser might overtake them in a few years. Assuming they would still make Firefox an offer, good would be far from an apt description of it.