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rvz 5 hours ago

Mozilla knows not to bite Google’s hand, who is the one that actually feeds them hundreds of millions of dollars.

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charcircuit 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Mozilla is the one who is funneling billions of dollars worth of traffic to Google.

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EbNar 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

So, is Mozilla promoting a search engine monoculture? Yeah, "Google bad, but..."

	▲	charcircuit an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Or is Google the best at monetizing queries and Mozilla is using whoever is best at doing it.

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rvz 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Google's only reason for keeping Mozilla on life support is to avoid the argument of being a total and complete browser monopoly.

Firefox's global traffic market share is less than double digits [0] and is less than 5%. Google technically doesn't need traffic from Firefox and Google is roughly paying half a billion ($585M) a year for it. [1]

[0] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share

[1] https://stateof.mozilla.org/pdf/Mozilla%20Fdn%202024%20-%20A...

	▲	charcircuit an hour ago \| parent [-]
		This doesn't make sense as Edge is a bigger browser than Firefox and competes with Google in the browser space. What Google pays for the traffic is less than what the traffic is worth (Google profits a lot too).