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It isn't adware anyway. 1. It shows ads only to a small fraction of new users and for a limited period of time. 2. It uses ads to provide a revenue diversity.
by zz1 12y ago
It isn't adware anyway.
1. It shows ads only to a small fraction of new users and for a limited period of time.
2. It uses ads to provide a revenue diversity. Ads are just a new revenue source. Not the only one.
- sp332 12y agoI thought it would show ads to all new users? And ads are already the majority source of Mozilla's income, so making more money from ads is going to lessen the diversity.
- zz1 12y ago> And ads are already the majority source of Mozilla's income Nope. Mozilla primary income source is Google (and Bing, amazon, ebay) paying to be the default search engine (and a search engine included in the search bar). And then there are users donation, which are slowly but steadily growing. Yet they are way under Mozilla's needs.