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> What might work is a browser funded by massive numbers of small user donations. That's the Firefox model. That's not the Firefox model at all. Firefox devel
by mkl 5y ago
> What might work is a browser funded by massive numbers of small user donations. That's the Firefox model.
That's not the Firefox model at all. Firefox development done by the Mozilla Corporation is primarily funded by search engine partnerships. Donations to the Mozilla Foundation (which owns the corporation) fund other initiatives instead, and are a much smaller amount.
https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/a98gmi/donations_to_mozilla_foundation_are_not_used_for/ https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/a98gmi/donations_t...
https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/ow9k0y/is_there_a_point_to_donating_to_mozilla/ https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/ow9k0y/is_there_a_...
- tdsamardzhiev 5y agoIt's one particular search engine partnership cough cough.
- mkl 5y agoPrimarily, but there are others. Yandex and Baidu in 2020 and presumably still: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/15/21370020/mozilla-google-firefox-search-engine-browser https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/15/21370020/mozilla-google-f.... Others in the past, not sure if any are still active: https://www.cnet.com/news/firefox-and-bing-together-at-last/ https://www.cnet.com/news/firefox-and-bing-together-at-last/. They're currently trialling Bing too: https://www.ghacks.net/2021/09/17/firefox-experiment-is-testing-bing-as-the-default-search-engine/ https://www.ghacks.net/2021/09/17/firefox-experiment-is-test...