Re:Maintaining an Independent Browser Is Expensive
by jstewartmobile on Sunday December 03, 2017 @01:56PM
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Unlike Edge, Chrome, Opera, or Safari, which are obviously corporate assets, Mozilla is also part non-profit, and going by their PR, a defender of privacy and the open web.
When money from search, which whittles away at privacy to deliver the right ads, or money from Verizon, who isn't a friend of privacy or the open web, is what keeps the lights on, don't you think that is just a little misleading to Joe Internet who is thinking about donating his time or money to their cause?
Re:Maintaining an Independent Browser Is Expensive
by scrollaway on Sunday December 03, 2017 @09:14PM
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Did you read the links? It's not like Verizon wants to pay that money. I think you're confused about how incentives work...
Re:Maintaining an Independent Browser Is Expensive
by jstewartmobile on Sunday December 03, 2017 @10:41PM
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Already read the first article. Didn't read the bloomberg article about the buyout provision, so my fault. Retracting the Verizon complaint.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/14/mozilla-terminates-its-dea...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-21/verizon-i...
I'm not aware of a renewal of the Google financial partnership. Feel free to correct me if you find information that goes beyond 2011. There certainly could be a new deal with Google there but Mozilla is not in the negociating position it once was, so there just as well could not; and seeing as I'm finding zero info about it, I'm leaning towards "there isn't".
But hey, I guess if they don't make a billion dollars a year through donations and take in zero outside revenue, they're not independent.