Firefox vs Brave: Brave is based on Chrome , and has some powerful hype right now. But what else ?
@worldsendless brave is trying to be self sufficient, mozilla takes soros and gafam money.
@icedquinn @worldsendless mozilla really take soros money?
@meowski @icedquinn @worldsendless Mozilla takes Google money. That’s most of their budget and this alone makes them hypocrites.
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Do you have a more recent article on this than 15-year old https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/a-dangerous-conflict-of-interest-between-firefox-and-google/
@worldsendless @meowski @icedquinn why did you even need to search that article? Mozilla’s financial reports are in the open.
@worldsendless @icedquinn @meowski but if an article makes you feel better, here’s a more recent one
https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/13/mozilla-expects-to-generate-more-than-500m-in-revenue-this-year/
> Still, in 2020, 86% of Mozilla’s revenue came from its search deal with Google. That may be down from 88% in 2019, but for all intents and purposes, Mozilla remains fully dependent on Google for the time being.
https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/13/mozilla-expects-to-generate-more-than-500m-in-revenue-this-year/
> Still, in 2020, 86% of Mozilla’s revenue came from its search deal with Google. That may be down from 88% in 2019, but for all intents and purposes, Mozilla remains fully dependent on Google for the time being.
@newt @icedquinn @meowski Thanks. I'm not in the habit of hunting down anyone's financial records (which reminds me... I still need to do my taxes... *sigh*), but readable articles are good. Yeah, looks like the "Google is bad" philosophy is put to the test for Mozilla fans
@worldsendless @icedquinn @meowski google is a company and doesn’t have moral standing. What’s bad is that google effectively controls 2/3 browser engines we have now. With the third one being Safari.
Many people consider Mozilla independent, whereas in reality they are anything but. I wouldn’t be surprised if they either enrolled or buried certain features just because google threatened to cut the money flow.
Many people consider Mozilla independent, whereas in reality they are anything but. I wouldn’t be surprised if they either enrolled or buried certain features just because google threatened to cut the money flow.
this may or may not have anything to do with adblock (later ublock) being exiled from the feature set despite being the #1 addon for years on end