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The lion's share of Mozilla's funding comes directly from Google [0]. The official reason is to feature G search as the default in Firefox, but it also convenie
by Liquix 3y ago
The lion's share of Mozilla's funding comes directly from Google [0]. The official reason is to feature G search as the default in Firefox, but it also conveniently keeps alive the only browser preventing antitrust action against chromium. They may want to care about freedom - or have cared at some point in the past - but at the end of the day they're beholden to Google in order to survive
[0] https://www.pcmag.com/news/mozilla-signs-lucrative-3-year-google-search-deal-for-firefox https://www.pcmag.com/news/mozilla-signs-lucrative-3-year-go...
- gorjusborg 3y ago> They may want to care about freedom - or have cared at some point in the past - but at the end of the day they're beholden to Google in order to survive Which makes one wonder if the existence of a competitor is a good measure of whether a monopoly exists. If a company is funding its main competitor, is it really a competitor? Google has a stranglehold on the browser market.