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Well, this is what happens when you depend on Google's money for decades and become complacent with it believing that it lasts forever as it accounts for 80% of
by rvz 2y ago
Well, this is what happens when you depend on Google's money for decades and become complacent with it believing that it lasts forever as it accounts for 80% of Mozilla's revenue, with no replacement for that if the search deal gets cancelled.
The CEO promised to move away from Google and to not solely rely on their revenue 16 years ago [0]. Nothing has changed and now Google is going to get broken up and it includes ending this deal directly affecting Mozilla. It's quite frankly Mozilla's fault for not looking for sustainable sources of income.
Mozilla should really have gone through the Rust consultancy route. Now, there is no way out other than begging to the courts and hoping that it doesn't get cut.
Oh dear.
[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20120105090543/https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9044160/Mozilla_can_live_without_Google_s_money_Baker_says_ https://web.archive.org/web/20120105090543/https://www.compu...
- jqpabc123 2y agoGoogle enticed them and Mozilla swallowed the bait --- hook, line and sinker. Now they are dangling like a fish at the end of Goggle's rod. Brave is what Firefox could have and should have become. This would have actually served consumer interests --- something that Mozilla constantly talks about but never follows through.
- speakingmoistly 2y ago> Brave is what Firefox could have and should have become. On the flipside, Brave went kinda weird with crypto and embedded it in the browser rather than having it be something you can tack on via extension if that's your jam. They certain bring something interesting to the space, but hitching themselves to the cryptocurrency wagon lost some people (myself included) along the way.
- jqpabc123 2y agoI'm not a crypto fan either. It's there if go looking for it but otherwise, it has no effect on the browser function.