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Mozilla's "default search provider agreements" are worth upwards of $400 million a year. Mozilla Corporation doesn't need any more money, but they're a corporat

Mozilla's "default search provider agreements" are worth upwards of $400 million a year. Mozilla Corporation doesn't need any more money, but they're a corporation... Mozilla is sitting on around a billion dollars in assets and continues to have revenue around $400 million a year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#Affiliations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#Affiliatio... https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2019/mozilla-fdn-2019-short-form-0926.pdf https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2019/mozilla-fdn-201... Mozilla has had weasely language regarding their advertising agreements since at least 2014 when they announced their "ongoing search strategy," saying that Yahoo was going to be their "long term strategic partner." They then breached their contract with Yahoo in 2017, presumably because Google offered them a deal they couldn't refuse to be reinstated as the default to coincide with the Firefox Quantum release. https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-features-google-as-default-search-provider-in-the-u-s-canada-hong-kong-and-taiwan/ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-feature... https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/promoting-choice-and-innovation-on-the-web/ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/promoting-choice-and-inn...

easygenes 5y ago
If you look back on Mitchell's words about protecting Mozilla's independence from, e.g. Google: https://web.archive.org/web/20120105090543/https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9044160/Mozilla_can_live_without_Google_s_money_Baker_says_ https://web.archive.org/web/20120105090543/https://www.compu... ... it would seem that 14 more years of eating out of Google's hands(with ever growing sums) has softened their resolve. "The things that make Mozilla and Firefox a success [are] the product, and the community that cares about it." First and foremost, we would protect those things," Baker said. "If the protection of those things would come into conflict with Google, or any of our search partners, we would opt for the community who built Firefox and love Firefox." ... would that it were so.

easygenes 5y ago

If you look back on Mitchell's words about protecting Mozilla's independence from, e.g. Google: https://web.archive.org/web/20120105090543/https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9044160/Mozilla_can_live_without_Google_s_money_Baker_says_ https://web.archive.org/web/20120105090543/https://www.compu... ... it would seem that 14 more years of eating out of Google's hands(with ever growing sums) has softened their resolve. "The things that make Mozilla and Firefox a success [are] the product, and the community that cares about it." First and foremost, we would protect those things," Baker said. "If the protection of those things would come into conflict with Google, or any of our search partners, we would opt for the community who built Firefox and love Firefox." ... would that it were so.