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Maybe they will allow a level-playing field and allow bids like in a marketplace?

• warkdarrior 2y ago
  Why would anyone bid for being the search engine in a browser with <4% market share and falling? Everybody will want to be on iPhone/Safari, Android/Chrome, and Windows/Chrome or Edge.
  • meiraleal 2y ago
    And at least 50% of this 4% (myself included) use ad blockers. Well, too bad Mozilla put itself in this situation. If it doesn't kill it, it will make it stronger.
  • uabstraction 2y ago
    4 percent of the browser market is still well over a hundred million users.
    • ImJamal 2y ago
      These default search deals are only on new installs though. How often will those users reinstall Firefox?
      • asadotzler 2y ago
        No. You are wrong, either confused or lying. These deals are a revenue share for ad engagement on search results. Stop the lying.
        • ImJamal 2y ago
          I think you are replying to the wrong person? If I set my search engine to DDG and Firefox has a deal with Google, then my browser is going to change my search engine to Google? Of course not. When you install Firefox it defaults to Google. In the past when Firefox had a deal with Yahoo it defaulted to Yahoo. Are you suggesting that is incorrect because all of that happened?