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They could probably exist without Google funding, like just supporting a Chromium fork with fast native adblocking. But obviously not as a thousand people company.

[heartbeats]

Sure, but organizations strive for bigness.

It's the perfect way to kill one, actually.

1) Give them $0.2 billion a year in easy money

2) Their projects expand as per Parkinson's law so they spend $0.2 billion a year

3) Since they have easy money, they won't bother seeking alternative funding sources

4) They now find themselves in the same position as a crack whore vis-a-vis her pimp

Mozilla wouldn't ever abandon their fun pet projects, but with sufficient coercion they might abandon privacy for "fighting hate" or similar.