Re:Google delays phasing out ad cookies on Chrome until 2024
by jonathankoren on Thursday July 28, 2022 @12:03AM
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> Google don't know how those users interact with firefox search settings though, and without that they don't know how much it is worth to pay for being the default search.
Where are you getting your information, because I don't believe this true from my conversations with Firefox developers and data scientists. I think Firefox sends a ping to Google along with a telemetry ping to Mozilla, and then both Mozilla and Google correlate / fight over data as part of the contractual negotiations.
Re:Google delays phasing out ad cookies on Chrome until 2024
by jefftk on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @08:51PM
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> Google don't know how those users interact with firefox search settings though, and without that they don't know how much it is worth to pay for being the default search.
Why not pay roughly in proportion to the revenue you get from Firefox users searching?
Also, since they are funded by ads it means that they can't make ad blocking as a default feature, since then those users wouldn't be worth anything to sell. Whether you like it or not Firefox isn't free from any of this control.