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Do they really need all that money? They could perhaps get good money, even if considerably less, from DDG.

• stu2b50 5y ago
  Well, yes. It’s almost all of their annual revenue and Mozilla already had huge layoffs[0], so presumably they’re not exactly on amazing footing financially. Duckduckgo could not provide anything near that much - ddg has 100m in annual revenue and Google is giving 500m to Mozilla. 5x their entire company’s annual revenue. [0] https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/11/21363424/mozilla-layoffs-quarter-staff-250-people-new-revenue-focus https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/11/21363424/mozilla-layoffs-...
  • SturgeonsLaw 5y ago
    If an organisation can be in financial trouble with an annual income of half a billion then it's poorly run. That's ample resources even for something as complex as a browser.
    • queuebert 5y ago
      You could do a lot of science for $500M. I wonder where all that money goes for a mostly complete piece of software.
      • blindmute 5y ago
        It goes into changing the UI every 6 months and removing features, of course
• mekster 5y ago
  Who wants to let go of free money? Mozilla is way overpaid, they probably lost focus other than paying $100m for browser development and MDN and probably the rest wasted.