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[-] 001100010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com 168 points 1 year ago

Firefox. I couldn't imagine using the internet without it.

[-] Emu@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

I've never thought about it, how do they make money? I've never seen an ad or sent them money.

[-] 001100010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago

They get paid by Google to feature their search engine as the default primary search engine. In Fennec, the non-google-play version of mobile browser Firefox, Duckduckgo is set as default, even though both versions are maintained by Mozilla, the non-profit organization behind Firefox.

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