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Re:Mozilla to deliver ads in its Firefox browser by avolcano on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @06:29PM (#7221345)
Honestly, if Mozilla wants to continue surviving, and wants to break their scary dependence on Google, I don't know what non-advertising alternatives they can explore.

(maybe a Wikipedia-style pledge drive on the new tab page? Of course, I bet people would be far more annoyed by that)

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Re:Mozilla to deliver ads in its Firefox browser by throwaway_yy2Di on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @06:32PM (#7221364)
Looks like Mozilla's budget is ~6x that of Wikipedia. $300 M/year figure FTA, vs. $49 M/year from

https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Budget

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Re:Mozilla to deliver ads in its Firefox browser by Aaronn on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @06:46PM (#7221449)
Except a huge part of that money comes from Google, and avolcano specifically mentions that Mozilla is trying to break away from Google
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Re:Mozilla to deliver ads in its Firefox browser by KnightHawk3 on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @06:33PM (#7221373)
They already have that right?

I remember seeing a "if everyone paid $3" ad at one point.

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Re:Mozilla to deliver ads in its Firefox browser by padenot on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @06:42PM (#7221425)
That was for the Mozilla Foundation, not the Mozilla Corporation. Firefox, Firefox for Android, FirefoxOS are made by the Mozilla Corporation.
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Re:Mozilla to deliver ads in its Firefox browser by Aaronn on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @06:42PM (#7221428)
on Mozilla? I don't think so...
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Re:Mozilla to deliver ads in its Firefox browser by callahad on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @06:48PM (#7221461)
That was indeed one of the `about:home` snippets during Foundation's year-end fundraising.
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Re:Mozilla to deliver ads in its Firefox browser by frandroid on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @07:49PM (#7221730)
They could default to Bing in the search bar. Lots of people would switch back to Google, so Mozilla wouldn't make as much money, but it wouldn't be a drop to zero. Unless Mozilla doesn't want to deal with the company that aimed to destroy Netscape in the first place...
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