Mozilla's Google Funding Dependency

Wishful thinking.Not a single mention of the fact Google contributed to 89% of Mozilla's income since 2005 [1]. Good luck convincing Mozilla to bite the hand that feeds it.[1] https://windscribe.com/blog/windscribe-expose-mozilla/

Almost all of Mozilla's money comes from Google, an ad company. Mozilla wouldn't want to bite the hand that feeds them.

Google paying Mozilla hundreds of millions of dollars isn't exactly a charity. Google care very much about the complete and utter ubiquity of their search.Using Firefox more will put Mozilla in a stronger position to negotiate a better deal, whether with Google or someone else. Worst that could happen is Firefox turning into some kind of boutique browser for connoisseurs willing to pay. That's uncompetable.They might be able to raise revenue using other innovative methods eventua

Technically nothing; the problem lies entirely in the Mozilla Foundation which takes about $500B each year from Google. Officially the motivation is to keep Google as preferred search engine, but seriously the Firefox user base is so small that I don't even think Google would be interested for much less if there weren't strings attached that very likely create a huge conflict of interest if Mozilla become dependent on that money for their own survival.<a href="https://www.

Are you aware that mozilla actually ran on money from google out of using firefox to tell them exactly who you are in order to get a share of the maximized profits ?

Because Google pays a lot of money to Mozilla?

Mozilla rely on Google funding, anyway.

Why would Mozilla do that when a large chuck of their funding comes from Google?

Mozilla is largely funded by Google. It's advertisement turtles all the way down.

Mozilla get a lot of money from Google. They're not totally independent.