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Mozilla makes a 9 digit income in referral fees from setting search engine defaults, almost exclusively from Google. At least they no longer solicit donations,
by blasdel 15y ago
Mozilla makes a 9 digit income in referral fees from setting search engine defaults, almost exclusively from Google.
At least they no longer solicit donations, but for them to pretend they're viable without that omg privacy violating teat to suckle at is just gauche.
- bzbarsky 15y agoThe major search engine providers all have referral fee programs. So while Mozilla does make money from those, it would do that no matter which of the major search engines it defaulted to, no? And note that there is a reason the search field is not merged with the url bar in Firefox. Precisely because it would be a privacy violation.