Re:Fighting for the Open Web [image]
by stunpix on Sunday July 30, 2023 @04:33AM
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Ironically by killing Google you highly likely will put Mozilla into a surviving. I doubt they will figure out how to deliver any new “big” features without being able paying their talented devs without a such funding.
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Just maybe, if over half of the browser market disappeared (chrome), there might be a dollar or two materializing for the remaining options.
Re:Fighting for the Open Web [image]
by tacitusarc on Sunday July 30, 2023 @06:10AM
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Doesn’t Google fund a lot of Mozilla’s dev work?
Re:Fighting for the Open Web [image]
by tourmalinetaco on Sunday July 30, 2023 @06:18AM
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Why would Google fund a competitor? On face value that doesn’t make much sense, but megacorps with so many tendrils rarely make cohesive decisions.
Re:Fighting for the Open Web [image]
by formerly_proven on Sunday July 30, 2023 @06:38AM
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90% or so of revenue is generated by search engine royalties, i.e. Mozilla getting paid for the choice of the default search engine (mostly Google).
It doesn't "fund" it - it buys its position as the default search engine in Firefox, which makes up the bulk of Mozilla's income. In this theoretical world where Google actually goes away, presumably some other company would want to pay for that position.