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> based on the financials, it's probably going to go bankrupt pretty quick.

Stage 1: Buy Chrome from Google, with its 65% browser market share.

Stage 2: Tell Google you'll keep them as default search provider for $5 billion per year.

Stage 3: Profit

> Tell Google you'll keep them as default search provider for $5 billion per year

The DOJ is working to ban search deals too, you wouldn't receive a single penny. The DOJ is incomprehensibly incompetent compared to the EU DMA/DSA.

I assume this will create issues with Mozilla too?

But didn't Firefox run into funding issues because they can't sell Google the privilege of being the default search?

I'm pretty sure they can, and do. The vast majority of Mozillas revenues come from Google for being the default search provider. The fact that Google pays Mozilla, Apple and Samsung (among others) to be the default search provider has been an issue with regulators, but as far as I know there has been no rulings on it (yet?).

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