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[–] mightygalahad@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago (25 children)

Doesn't Google pay billions to Apple for the top spot? Why would they want to lose that stream of free cash?

[–] glockenspiel@programming.dev 13 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Could be that Apple will acquire DuckDuckGo. A little hasty to presume it I suppose, but Apple has to wonder how much money they are leaving on the table by taking Google’s payments. If Google will pay them more than $9 billion/year just to be default—what does that say about how profitable Apple’s absolutely huge and locked-in base can be?

[–] QHC@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

How is Apple going to monetize DuckDuckGo to make up for that $9 billion, without compromising their other efforts w/r/t user and data privacy?

[–] The_Mixer_Dude@lemmus.org -1 points 1 year ago

What data privacy?

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