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Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

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The Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Firefox browser maker Mozilla, has laid off 30% of its employees as the organization says it faces a “relentless onslaught of change.”

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[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Expecting millions to be cut is still extreme when you have a fucking billion in the bank.

[-] dan@upvote.au 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

They get around $500 million per year from Google, so $1 billion is just two years worth of that. 86% of Mozilla's revenue comes from that Google deal.

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