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by dao- 3118 days ago
No, you're still missing most of the picture. Mozilla didn't get paid for Google being the default outside of the US, China and Russia when it made Yahoo the default in the US. Mozilla had a global deal with Google and that expired. Bottomline is, most of Mozilla's 2016 revenue came from Yahoo.
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Buge 3118 days ago
That seems weird. There was no search engine that was willing to pay money to be default outside of US, China, and Russia?
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Feniks 3118 days ago
In Europe Google has a 90+% market share. At this point nobody even bothers to compete.
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dao- 3118 days ago
There was no search engine willing to pay that would deliver good enough search results in those markets...
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gcb0 3118 days ago
even if they don't have a explicit deal, they got search revenue sharing from google on those markets.

not to mention sending every single url you visit to google servers to check for malware or something. just like chrome. ...though I think that is now a local search recently.

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magicalist 3118 days ago
> not to mention sending every single url you visit to google servers to check for malware or something. just like chrome. ...though I think that is now a local search recently.

Safe search/browsing has always been local.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Safe_Browsing

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