Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative - eviltoast
  • infeeeee@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    He says “powered by or funded by Google”. Firefox depends on Google financially, most of the income of Mozilla comes from Google paying for being the default search engine.

    They try to diversify their income (Firefox VPN, email alias service, etc.), but anything they try gets a huge backlash from the community, and still small compared to the the money from google.

      • Bali@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        I think google need firefox exist to avoid anti trust, and Mozilla need google to keep the the six figures payroll for the CEO. So yes.