Comment on Mozilla Senior Director of Content explained why Mozilla has taken an interest in the fediverse and Mastodon

• chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Isn’t that their main source of revenue?

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  • Kushan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The rights to search sure are, but it’s more like Google happens to be the one paying it right now. It could be Microsoft or Yahoo or anyone.

    Mozilla definitely needs to diversity better here, but the implication that they’re “funded by google” is completely misleading.

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    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The rights to search sure are, but it’s more like Google happens to be the one paying it right now. It could be Microsoft or Yahoo or anyone.

      I don’t buy that what they are paid reflects the value of their search rights. Google has antitrust interest in the continued existence of Firefox, that’s why they would pay them, doesn’t matter what they say it’s for.

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