Maybe if they don’t align with Google agenda so much, I’ll switch.
What’s the ethical of switching if Mozilla is just the non-profit arm of Google?
What’s the ethical of switching if Mozilla is just the non-profit arm of Google?
Google’s search dominance won’t be cured by Mozilla ending its partnership. It will only be cured by innovative competitors who discover an even better way of organizing the internet’s information (perhaps OpenAI or LLMs generally?), or by government regulation. In the meantime, I like to think of Mozilla’s siphoning of cash from Google as a good thing while we all wait for a proper long term solution that may never arrive.
A similar philosophical question ought to confront us every day about many things we use without thinking, both on the internet and off.
86% of revenue of Mozilla corp are royalties, which encompasses any search engine that shares revenue with Firefox, not just Google. But the remaining 14% is not only revenue generated by Firefox, but also by e.g. Pocket. So from their financial statement, it's pretty hard to say what percentage of Firefox's revenue is derived from Google.