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Search engines royalties are a share of the ad revenue generated from the search queries. Ad revenue is down significantly across the board.

It's odd also because those search engines have long-term contracts to the tune of like $350-$500M a year, and Google seems to be doing okay.

The contract ends start of 2021 IIRC and Firefox market share has been dropping and will continue dropping (specially now after this news).

Which means I'm sure they are planning for a large reduction in revenue, like 50% or whatever. These contracts are usually on a 3-6 year basis..

While I get the intent, as noted on the thread about their version 2 script blocker: what better way to hobble what tiny share you have by not allowing site owners to know FF users exist?

They are obviously bullshiting