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[โ€“] glockenspiel@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Makes no sense. Mozilla has no horse in the advertising race. But Google does. Almost all of Google's profits are from ads. Ads keep the entire Alphabet house of cards afloat.

But not Mozilla. The largest connection there is them being paid for default lt search engine.

[โ€“] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I read ~88% of its 800+ million dollar a year revenue comes from search engines.

Surely if that's true it would have no impact on their decisions /s