Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up

Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by ascagnel_ on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @09:43AM (#24566958)

> Firefox has a problem. It gets most of its revenue from Google. They need a different revenue stream but their ideas haven't worked.

It's not just that they get most of their revenue from Google -- it's that they're getting most of their revenue from a company that also runs their biggest competitor and has every incentive to push their own product over someone else's.

Apple and Mozilla both have uncomfortable dependencies on Google nowadays, so I wonder if one of them (if not both) are looking to buy DuckDuckGo.

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Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by stingraycharles on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @09:48AM (#24566994)

Google may want to do with Mozilla the same thing Microsoft did with Apple during their antitrust case: keep it alive to keep the regulators off their back.

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