How does Mozilla make their money?

4/4/14 | fwdude

[fwdude]

Just wanted to get up to speed on how these outfits operate, from people in the know. Banners? Clicks? What?

[Viennacon]

Ads... and apparently now AIDS

[fwdude]

Good one.

[doc1019]

Simple ... advertising, advertising that Adblock defeats. LOL!

[RightGeek]

In 2011 Mozilla had a revenue of US$163.5 million, with 85% of this sum from Google. Google pays them to set Google as the default search engine in Firefox.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Follow the dollar. Google is pro-extinctionist.

[Linda Frances]

So no google. Use bing?

[smokingfrog]

Mozilla would dry-up if it weren’t for Google.

[GeronL]

What happens if everyone changed their default to Scroogle or duck duck go! Search engines?

[GeronL]

Bing is MS, use Scroogle or Duck Duck Go

[expat1000]

>>So no google. Use bing?

There’s little ideological difference between the two companies, but personally I do think Google is more extreme left than MS.

The search results are also just about the same, but I prefer the Bing layout. So I switched to Bing about 6 months ago and have no plans to switch back.

[OneWingedShark]

There’s also Ixquick.

[cutty]

https://www.startpage.com/

[stratboy]

Mozilla, the MSNBC of internet browsers.

[Wingy]

Mozilla, the MSNBC of internet browsers.

Except that Firefox works...

[OneWingedShark]

Except that Firefox works...

It leaks memory, and it's kinda a memory-hog — I wish they'd have used Ada or Eiffel in their rewrite.

Ada — known for its use in safety-critical systems, has a reputation for high-reliability systems because of its type-system.
Eiffel — Known for being the preeminent Design-by-Contract language, giving a lot of thought to interfaces.

[Linda Frances]

Thanks!

[skr]

DuckDuckGo, for those who don’t want their searches stored/tracked.

[Linda Frances]

Thanks!

[Jeff Chandler]

Volume.