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Mozilla's 2012 Annual Report: 90% of Revenue Came From Google

Posted by samzenpus on from the one-basket dept.

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."

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  1. Because they put out crap by OverlordQ · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's because instead of listening to what the users want, they plow ahead with stupid UI-redesigns to make Firefox a slower, buggier Chrome clone. I mean sure, the new UI is spiffy, but they can't fix a nearly ten year old bug with find.

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  2. Re:They sold out a long time ago by arth1 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Because it breaks the fucking web. So much so that Google have hacked people's installations of Safari to disable it.

    Out of the goodness of their heart. It obviously has nothing to do with 3rd party cookies being used for tracking and generating ad revenue.

    No, you don't need 3rd party cookies. The benign use of those is almost non-existing, and the only "breakage" are sites that deliberately won't work unless they can track you. If you're fine with that, there's a Chrome for you.