Apr 11, 2024

In 2020, Mozilla signed a deal with Google for them to pay $450 million a year until 2024 to be the default search engine. This is 50% higher than what Mozilla got from Google a decade ago, despite a shrinking market share for Firefox. To make it even more painfully obvious how much Mozilla gets from this, this money makes up roughly ninety percent of their income.

Oh, yes, did I mention this contract is due to be renewed in 2024? I wonder if that has any bearings on this AI push by Mozilla. I wonder if there’s a risk that the Google money will dry up?

Mozilla is desperate to divest its income stream because it is reliant on essentially being a controlled opposition to Chrome to survive.

Show threadKevin Karhan 

@yassie_j I do doubt this to change because with #GoogleChrome's market dominance, #Google paying @mozilla is way cheaper than them getting #ShermanAntitrust'd by #FTC if not forced to split apart in the #EU by @EU_Commission ...

That being said, #Mozilla needs to get their act together and stop alienating it's users and supporters by pushing AI bs...

Kevin Karhan :verified: (@[email protected])

Instead of blowing a shitload of donation money on #AI bs, how about you actually focus on what *really* matters, @[email protected] ? Like: - making #Firefox great and not a *marginally less shitty browser* compared to #Google #Chrome / #GoogleChrome... - making @[email protected] / #Thunderbird a really good #mail client and not a *marginally less shitty #eMail program* than #Microsoft #Outlook / #MicrosoftOutlook and #Apple Mail #AppleMail ... --- Seriously: 1. log off 2. get outside 3. touch grass 4. take a good and long sleep 5. rethink what you just posted 6. undo the harm you just did. Sincerely, A longterm Firefox and Thunderbird user.

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