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Empowering Choice: Firefox Partners with Qwant for a Better Web
(blog.mozilla.org)
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this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2024
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Yeah... Things like this partnership, plus publishing posts against things Google is doing (https://blog.mozilla.org/en/privacy-security/googles-protected-audience-protects-advertisers/), might spook Google a bit. Mozilla rely on receiving hundreds of millions of dollars from Google every year. Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
The fact that Mozilla is so dependent on Google is the actual problem here, diversifying where they get funding from is precisely what they should be doing going forward.
Mozilla has diversified... By jumping into AI.
And shuttering previous diversification products and laying off staff.
Saw that, totally can't imagine how any of that is going to backfire.
I definitely agree with you, but finding another partner to get hundreds of millions of dollars per year isn't trivial.
Sure, but finding more partners is crucial for long term survival, so if Mozilla never reaches out to anybody for fear of offending Google then they're always gonna be stuck in this sort of abusive relationship. Becoming so reliant on Google in the first place shouldn't have happened, but it's better to start fixing that sooner than later. It's also worth noting that the main reason Google funds FF is to protect themselves from antitrust litigation. As long as FF is around and gets a bit of usage, then Google can point to it to say that Chrome isn't a browser monopoly.