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Re:Firefox search update by zamadatix on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @01:21PM (#40357579)
It's not a sponsorship, it's a sale.It's also made such deals with Yandex, Baidu, and Yahoo before. The sale is for eyeballs on your search (ad) service. Firefox is getting in a precarious situation with it though as the number of users on Firefox has been decreasing (in absolute terms) despite the number of web users increasing.
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Re:Firefox search update by xnyan on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @02:22PM (#40358355)
It's also a part of their anti-trust defense strategy. Firefox staying alive as a marginal but existent alternative to chromium based browsers is currently good for google.
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