"The seeming double down makes no sense to me." One of the findings Google shared as evidence in the DoJ's antitrust litigation was that Google's users consume

"The seeming double down makes no sense to me." One of the findings Google shared as evidence in the DoJ's antitrust litigation was that Google's users consume "AI"-generated results more readily than "non-AI" results Mozilla gets paid by sending search query data to Google More user-facing "AI" potentially means more search data will be generated by (from) Mozilla's users The number of gratuitous HTTP requests generated by mobile Firefox is, to me, nothing less than astounding. All this traffic is blocked from reaching the internet on the computers and networks I own but I would imagine most Firefox users allow this traffic to escape. I suspect "AI" will only increase the number of automatically-generated HTTP requests even further "It won't suddenly make Firefox more popular." Perhaps the goal is not necessarily to increase the number of Firefox users but to "extract" more data from existing users "I really want to see it do better and succeed" For Mozilla's CEO and senior management it looks like Mozilla is succeeding Look at the steady increase in pay for Ms Baker https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200097189/ https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200... https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2024/b200-mozilla-foundation-form-990-public-disclosure-ty23.pdf https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2024/b200-mozilla-fo... Primarily, Mozilla serves website operators, advertisers and Google Generally, Firefox users are data sources and ad targets