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by sharkweek 4226 days ago
Realistically it's because DDG can't pay the bills
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DuckDuckGo’s or Mozilla’s?
Mozilla's.
Google paid Mozilla around $275 million in search royalties in 2012, the latest year Mozilla has released financials.

Source: https://static.mozilla.com/moco/en-US/pdf/Mozilla_Audited_Fi...

90% of $305 million in royalties (see page 4 and Note 8)