It really helps that it's not tied to any of the giants of advertising 🥳
Kinda 👀
In 2013 most of Mozilla revenue came from the search advertising deal they did with Google (and other partners). Basically they had to put Google as a default search engine in exchange for money: computerworld.com/article/2850881/... - same in 2016.
According to the latest available report, from 2018, they still have a sizable portion of their revenue coming from those deals:
Today, the majority of Mozilla Corporation revenue is generated from global browser search partnerships, including the deal negotiated with Google in 2017 following Mozilla’s termination of its search agreement with Yahoo/Oath (which was the subject of litigation the parties resolved in 2019.)
By looking at the audited financial statement [pdf] you will notice that out of 450 millions in revenue, 429 of those come from those deals (look at "royalties"), so roughly 95%. Don't know how much of that is strictly from Google but I bet it is the majority.
So yeah, Mozilla kinda depends on giants of advertising to survive.
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Yes, fully aware of that, but at least they are not one owned by the other one. If in ten years DuckDuckGo is the most used and profitable search engine (hey, one can dream!), I'm sure it will be easier for Mozilla to set it as its default engine as compared to Chrome.
You bring good points and in the end, money is pretty much the ultimate deal breaker.
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Kinda 👀
In 2013 most of Mozilla revenue came from the search advertising deal they did with Google (and other partners). Basically they had to put Google as a default search engine in exchange for money: computerworld.com/article/2850881/... - same in 2016.
According to the latest available report, from 2018, they still have a sizable portion of their revenue coming from those deals:
By looking at the audited financial statement [pdf] you will notice that out of 450 millions in revenue, 429 of those come from those deals (look at "royalties"), so roughly 95%. Don't know how much of that is strictly from Google but I bet it is the majority.
So yeah, Mozilla kinda depends on giants of advertising to survive.
Yes, fully aware of that, but at least they are not one owned by the other one. If in ten years DuckDuckGo is the most used and profitable search engine (hey, one can dream!), I'm sure it will be easier for Mozilla to set it as its default engine as compared to Chrome.
You bring good points and in the end, money is pretty much the ultimate deal breaker.