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People should stop mentioning Firefox Google deal when they defend Firefox against their advertising investments. (programming.dev)
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If Google stopped supporting Firefox today, Bing would still pay to be the default engine. If bing does not pay, Yandex would do.

My point here is Firefox still has 2.71% market share, a lot of search engines operators would pay Firefox good money to be their default engine.

The default search revenue stream is guaranteed as long as they have good amount of users.

But they actively choose to ruin it.

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[–] LWD@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Mozilla was surprisingly close to having its own search engine, if you count its partnership with Ghostery several years back. But Brave, a company with presumably fewer resources, bought it out.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But Brave isn't maintaining a rendering engine, so they're able to spend on different things.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How much do you think Tailcat cost Brave? I know Mozilla must spend more money doing legitimate browser development, but they also spend a whole lot of money doing entirely unrelated things.

If it was less than $65 million, the amount of money Mozilla committed to AI and VC back in 2022, it could have been the money they purchased Tailcat with back in 2021.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why are you bringing up AI? Brave, like all major browsers, has also invested in AI https://brave.com/leo/

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago

You said Mozilla couldn't purchase a search engine by implying they didn't have enough free money, so I gave you an example of them spending $65 million. I just thought to myself, "isn't it interesting that they missed an opportunity to directly monetize something," and I shared it with you.