King@sh.itjust.works to Technology@programming.devEnglish · 2 months agoIs Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?infosec.pressexternal-linkmessage-square10linkfedilinkarrow-up159
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minus-squareDeebster@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 months agoWhy would blocking ad blockers in Firefox bring in another $150 million? From where?
minus-squarehalcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·2 months agoKickbacks from ad companies? Bribe from Google to remove adblockers from the second largest browser on the market after they decimated adblockers in Chrome? Google already pays them nearly that much to be the default search engine.
minus-squareDeebster@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoThat’s my assumption, it would be interesting to hear the exact details, and if Mozilla has been approached regarding this already.
minus-squarejol@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoA lot of Firefox’es revenue comes from revenue sharing from the default search options (except Google I think).
Why would blocking ad blockers in Firefox bring in another $150 million? From where?
Kickbacks from ad companies? Bribe from Google to remove adblockers from the second largest browser on the market after they decimated adblockers in Chrome? Google already pays them nearly that much to be the default search engine.
That’s my assumption, it would be interesting to hear the exact details, and if Mozilla has been approached regarding this already.
A lot of Firefox’es revenue comes from revenue sharing from the default search options (except Google I think).