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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by rvz on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @10:41AM (#24120741)
> Mozilla can't exist solely because people think it has a good mission: it needs products that can pay the bills, or at least a large population of active users.

Absolutely. It has to stand on its own feet. Yet the only reason Mozilla is being kept alive is due to Google paying them to be the default search engine as part of a deal which is where the majority of their revenue is from. [0]

Funny how their mission in "supporting internet privacy" also somehow means we must have deals with companies with the likes of Google who don't believe in Mozilla's own mission in order to survive.

[0] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2018/

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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by kvark on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @10:46AM (#24120794)
Well, you have to pick your battles, right? Maybe in some future when Mozilla has their own privacy-oriented open-source search engine, as well as an independent solid source of income, it would cease to sign contracts with Google. We aren't there yet, and may never be.
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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by auslegung on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @10:49AM (#24120828)
Wow.

> Today, the majority of Mozilla Corporation revenue is generated from global browser search partnerships, including the deal negotiated with Google in 2017 following Mozilla’s termination of its search agreement with Yahoo/Oath (which was the subject of litigation the parties resolved in 2019.)

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