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Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)
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[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 114 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firefox gets like 90% of its revenue from Google.

Keep Firefox independent and donate: https://donate.mozilla.org/en-US/?form=donate

[–] nintendoit@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But donating your money can not make firefox independent.It will only make firefox more revenue.

Google wants to keep mozilla afloat to stay out of anti-competitive allegations.

[–] sep@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If mozilla gets market share, google will defund them. That mozilla have a money will help.

Also mozilla's other projects are also good ;)

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 year ago

Also big CEO wallets.
Nothing in comparison to others but there is some special pay going.

But it's definitely the lesser of the evils.

[–] aidan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Some of Mozilla's other projects are good, iirc there was a journalist a few years ago who chronicled how Mozilla had donated a lot of money to other charities unrelated to it's goal rather than reinvesting in the business so that it can try to ween off of Google reliance.

[–] madis@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago

And the money won't go to Firefox, but Mozilla's other projects.