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 threadKrutonium://Apr 11, 2024

@yassie_j Meanwhile they're YoY increasing the pay of their CEO, by about $2 Million USD/year, while they're actively *losing* marketshare.

Never has there ever been a better reason to find someone who wants the job not for the money but to actually keep the company afloat.

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@krutonium this is correct. Their last CEO earned a cool 6.9 million USD, despite doing nothing to increase Mozilla market share. That’s a failure.
Apr 11, 2024 at 5:56pmWeb
Show threadKrutonium://Apr 11, 2024
@yassie_j Seriously infuriating. If I'm doing my job so badly that I lose 30 Million Users, I do *not* think I should be getting a $4,000,000 Raise in that same time frame.