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There you go. What the rest of the comments in your reply don't tell you is that Mozilla's expenses outweigh their income for years, which means they are constantly losing money. [0]

Given that Google is their only source of income, (excluding one-time payments) it is indeed very unstable and they are ultimately at the mercy of Google, despite 14 years ago promising [1] to move away from being completely dependent on their income. At this point, Mozilla is on life support.

Privacy (which is their main selling point) to Mozilla is also a joke to them. If Google wasn't bad enough, why not work with Meta on 'ads' too? Not exactly 'privacy first' - they might as well drop that claim.

[0] https://www.computerworld.com/article/3600206/mozilla-report...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20120105090543/https://www.compu...



> Mozilla's expenses outweigh their income for years

Are those expenses for developing the browser, or burning money on other things that nobody cares about?

For example have you seen their YouTube recently? Why are they spending money on making these bizarre rants about their competitors?

https://www.youtube.com/user/Mozilla/videos




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