[shooper]

Google isn't backing them with $300M/year because Mozilla is pumping out good open source software. They are doing it to maintain their dominance in search and keep Bing, DDG, Blekko at bay. For example, they have a similar deal with the closed source(till recently) Opera browser.

I wish Mozilla would stick to its principles and switch the default to a privacy conscious search engine like DuckDuckGo and give it a much needed boost in keyword relevance data.

[thrownaway2424]

Mozilla cares a lot more about happy users than about your principles. They're not going to switch to dramatically worse search results just to appease the tin hat crowd.

[booruguru]

> They're not going to switch to dramatically worse search results just to appease the tin hat crowd.

Calling them the "tin hat" crowd would suggest that they are delusion when, in fact, the U.S. government has repeatedly admitted that they are spying everybody and they don't understand why anyone should complain.

[Shebanator]

Just because they are out to get you doesn’t mean you aren’t paranoid.

[judk]

Mozilla is a nonprofit with its own principles in is charter. It isn't just a business.

[thrownaway2424]

An incorrect albeit widespread misconception. Mozilla is _both_ the Mozilla Corporation, an ordinary business, _and_ the Mozilla Foundation, a not-for-profit organization.

[judk]

True, but not in contradiction with my earlier statement.

The corporation's charter is to support the Foundation's goals through market activities not allowed for nonprofits, not to generate profit as a traditional joint-stock corporation.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation

[dragonwriter]

> I wish Mozilla would stick to its principles and switch the default to a privacy conscious search engine like DuckDuckGo

Which of Mozilla's principles (rather than yours) would this be "sticking with"?

[camus2]

privacy? isnt the point of persona?