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I love both companies, but you realize Mozilla makes most of their money because of a search deal with Google, right?
by lawdawg 14y ago
I love both companies, but you realize Mozilla makes most of their money because of a search deal with Google, right?
- shardling 14y agoBut since their goal isn't to make money...
- rayiner 14y agoYeah, but selling your privacy isn't the point of its existence, unlike Google, Facebok, Twitter, etc. That makes it the top performer in the Special Olympics, so to speak.
- magicalist 14y agoI love Mozilla, but technically they do sell your search history for their funding, based on some opaque bidding process to become the default search provider in Firefox.
- graue 14y agoNo. Having a default search engine is not "selling your search history" and Firefox makes it extremely easy to defeat the Google cookie if that is what you as a user wish to do.
- hollerith 14y ago>Yeah, but selling your privacy isn't the point of its existence, unlike Google I usually agree with your comments, rayiner, but have to disagree with this one. Unless there is very strong evidence to the contrary (and neither Mozilla's mission statement nor its non-profit status qualifies as very strong evidence), any organization that depends on an organization that 'sells your privacy' (your words) for over 90% of its income is just as bad-for-your-privacy in the long term as an organization that directly sells your privacy.
- whatusername 14y agoWhen I type my words in the little magic box mozilla sends them to the one company I want to see them -- google. I'm not sure how that's a betrayal of privacy? (unless Mozilla is sending other words to google.
- rooshdi 14y agoBut Mozilla actually has leverage over Google to commit to user privacy. If Google doesn't like what they're doing, Bing, Yandex, or any other search engine has the opportunity to be the new search default.