NETWORK POLITICS

Firefox financing under pressure: Mosilla is worried about payment for Google Search

14/03/2025

Mosila has spoken in favor of ensuring that the search engine providers can continue to pay to browser developers. This was done before the proposals of the US justice ministry and several lawyers in general, which was banned as an therapeutic remedy in the antitrust process against Google to ban such payments. “General Internet users will have the most damage,” said Mozilla President Mark Surman. His company receives Google Payment so that its search is preset in the engine firefox.

For this service, the American software company also pays in other browsers. Apple gets $ 20 billion annually so that safari users use Google Search by default. However, Mozilla, unlike other browser providers, is currently dependent on payment from mountain views. Therefore, Mozilla feels deprived of financially strong competition that can cross your browser. However, the company recently extended its business sectors to artificial intelligence and digital advertisements to be able to ensure firefox financing in the future.

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However, Mozilla is currently feeling threatened by lawyers’ suggestions. “Inadvertently the result is the transfer of power from one major actor to another,” Sarman warned, indicating that Microsoft can also pay for the installation of bing as a standard search engine. At the same time, it excludes small challengers who provide privacy to their users, which are supplemented despite the changed terms of the market expansion and the replacing use of user data in the firefox.

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In addition, Surman explains that the cancellation of the removal by Mosila will also affect the further development of in-house browser engine Gacco. Gaco is currently one of the three central engines. Others blink the Safari browser with a google and webcate’s chromium project. “If we can no longer develop Gacco, it is finished with an open web. Then Chromium remains the only cross-platform browser engine,” warns in Suman Mozilla statement And refers to the change of opera and microsoft edge for chromium engine.

(SFE)