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minus-squaresub_ubi@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-210 months agoDoesn’t Mozilla rely on Google for default search? Does this change that relationship?
minus-squareHal-5700X@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·edit-210 months ago Doesn’t Mozilla rely on Google for default search? and money…mainly the money. Does this change that relationship? Unknown at this time.
minus-squaredan@upvote.aulinkfedilinkarrow-up5·10 months agoYeah… Things like this partnership, plus publishing posts against things Google is doing (https://blog.mozilla.org/en/privacy-security/googles-protected-audience-protects-advertisers/), might spook Google a bit. Mozilla rely on receiving hundreds of millions of dollars from Google every year. Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
minus-squareLWD@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 months agoMozilla has diversified… By jumping into AI. Spent $65-265 million on AI that we know of Bought an AI company for an undisclosed sum and funded more AI research for unknown amounts Brought AI to Kenya (in a move strangely reminiscent of cryptocurrency companies trying to fix the “unranked” problem And shuttering previous diversification products and laying off staff.
minus-squaredan@upvote.aulinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agoI definitely agree with you, but finding another partner to get hundreds of millions of dollars per year isn’t trivial.
minus-squareebits21@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoBut is Qwant going to be default?
Doesn’t Mozilla rely on Google for default search? Does this change that relationship?
and money…mainly the money.
Unknown at this time.
Yeah… Things like this partnership, plus publishing posts against things Google is doing (https://blog.mozilla.org/en/privacy-security/googles-protected-audience-protects-advertisers/), might spook Google a bit. Mozilla rely on receiving hundreds of millions of dollars from Google every year. Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
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Mozilla has diversified… By jumping into AI.
And shuttering previous diversification products and laying off staff.
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I definitely agree with you, but finding another partner to get hundreds of millions of dollars per year isn’t trivial.
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But is Qwant going to be default?