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I feel like this line of thinking is unnecessarily binary. Think of it this way: what percentage of the revenue of each of these businesses comes from advertis
by rpastuszak 4y ago
I feel like this line of thinking is unnecessarily binary.
Think of it this way: what percentage of the revenue of each of these businesses comes from advertising? Where can you put your (understandably) limited trust given the limited list of options?
There's a huge difference between the incentives of Alphabet and, _say_, Mozilla from the revenue source pov.
- fikama 4y agoIsn't the main source of revenue for Mozilla Google? So what is the difference in their incentives from a revenue pov?
- rpastuszak 4y agoNot everything’s black and white. How much control does Google have over the feature set of FF[1] or Safari[2]? ^1 ca $400M paid to Mozilla for search partnerships by Google, per annum ^2 probably ca 10-15B paid to Apple, pa How would you answer your own question?
- fikama 4y agoI am not sure I understand. Mozilla is more dependent on those 400M than apple on 10-15B so (hypothetically) they are more willing to please Google or at least not to disturb them much, than Apple. So, purely from revenue pov Firefox is nearly as much concerned about google's bussiness as google is.