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Mozilla hit with privacy complaint over Firefox user tracking
(www.reuters.com)
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this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2024
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It's conspiratorial that Google gets ad clicks through Firefox, and pays Mozilla some of the money it makes from that?
And I suppose it's also conspiratorial to claim it's doing the same for Safari users - instead it's more likely that it's paying Apple 20 billion a year to remain out of the clutches of regulators?
Language removed so I can elaborate:
I don't believe Google sets aside the money made through Firefox exclusively for Firefox. (If you believe this is the case, good luck demonstrating it, I guess.) Google's money probably goes into a big pool named "ad revenue", and that pool is probably filled disproportionately with Google's own Chrome users.
Again, Google is doing to Mozilla what Microsoft did for Apple: hurling money at them with the facade of an exchange of something, in order to stave off regulators.