Maybe if we support firefox we could reach the same amout of money than google
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2024
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Google was recently successfully sued for being anit-competitive by paying third parties to set Google as the default search engine.
That payoff by Google is like 90% of Mozilla's income, which is probably disappearing. So yeah, they're in full panic to fill that gap.
The original developer has a great blog, and has commented on this
He seems to only have been involved during roughly the first year of Mozilla's existence.
Right, an original at Mosaic [Netscape] before it got into that fight with Internet Explorer, went open-source, and became Mozilla.
Yeah exactly.
They've decided who their customers are, and it's not you
Since FF is free - isn't that a given?
Literally no one but advertisers like ads. Anything that leads to more ads being shown is a negative to your community. Some might understand the need to make money, but that doesn't make anyone like ads.
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