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Mozilla's 2012 Annual Report: 90% of Revenue Came From Google
An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla today released its annual financial report for 2012, and while revenue is up quite substantially, the organization's reliance on Google continues to grow. In 2011, 85 percent of Mozilla's revenue came from Google. In 2012, the figure increased to 90 percent."
The only thing they "backed off" from was a a default setting. Big deal.
Paid for by Google Ads. Yeah, it's a problem.
IIRC, they were the first to even include that feature in their browser.
It was a proposed government standard. It was first implimented by collaborators after that meeting, and a plugin published for download on Mozilla's homepage. So no, they were not the first. Mozilla was the first browser to have it included, but that was not because of the Mozilla Foundation.
AFAIK there is still no other browser that offers such functionality. Not even Ghostery does the same job.
All browsers save cookies. They are documented ways of recovering them; for obvious reasons. Sorry.
How? How have they "infected" it?
The same way rich lobbyists infected Congress.
Mozilla was not always getting most of its revenue from Google,
Which means nothing in the present, in which they are.
Google isn't "giving" them the money, it's from ads,
No, Google is giving them money. But don't take my word for it; It's in the FAQ for their financial statements. Just browse down to the question "How does Mozilla generate revenue?"
The majority of Mozillaâ(TM)s revenue is generated from search and commerce functionality included in our Firefox product through all major search partners including Google, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, Amazon, Ebay and others. Mozillaâ(TM)s reported revenues also include very important individual and corporate donations and grants, which are growing significantly, as well as other forms of income from our investable assets.
and Google's disappearance tomorrow would not make Mozilla "implode". They'd just have to advertise elsewhere.
Yeah. 90% of their revenue dries up and it's just a simple matter of pointing their ad servers to a new place...
I think you have extremely grossly overstated your case.
But I don't think I have "extremely grossly overstated" anything... in fact, if anything, I was trying to understate things to avoid flames from idiot fanboys who think their youthful idealism is shared by the companies whose products they use. But as that has failed, I'm reverting to my usual brand of bluntness. So with that in mind: I think you've been smoking more crack than the Toronto mayor. You were wrong on every point you made, and not just a little.
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