Google fund Mozilla 81% of their revenue 510 million dollar out of 593 million. I don’t how they earn 83 million by VPN and donation but their VPN is Jackshit. Google is paying them for so long because they wants to avoid antitrust lawsuits in the US. By keeping Firefox around and “competing” with them, Google can argue that they don’t have a monopoly.

But the problem runs deeper. Mozilla’s leadership—especially the CEO—is raking in absurd amounts (around 6 million as their salary) of money, which seems completely unjustified. They have 7000 employees over the world but all they are fixing bugs over a decade. They give 240 millions to all their department but no one know where rest of money goes that Google gave to them. And you also haven’t seen a single AD from firefox over a decade makes you what are they doing. Open-source community can do better than this. Their market share is shrinking which is near 2.5% now , and they’re not making any serious moves to challenge Chrome’s dominance. They never introduce any serious alternative to any Google services like search, mail, anything.

Instead of actually competing, Mozilla just kind of coasts along, keeping up appearances. Meanwhile, their CEO is sitting on a mountain of cash, which raises a big question.

This whole situation stinks of greed and a lack of genuine competition. Mozilla could be doing so much more to push back against Google’s dominance, but as long as they’re funded by Google, it feels like they’re just another cog in the machine, designed to keep Google safe from regulatory scrutiny.

What do you all think?

  • Fonzie!@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I do often see blogs of what they’re doing, from products to talks to hosting events etc. for, among others, a more free internet.

    That said, a company with 600 million USD revenue, with a CEO taking 1% of that revenue by themselves, is pretty standard. Higher percentage in much smaller companies.

    But I do agree, if 81% of their revenue comes from Google investments, and Google uses “Well Firefox exists” as an excuse for a lack of competition, then that is shady.