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People should stop mentioning Firefox Google deal when they defend Firefox against their advertising investments. (programming.dev)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by 911@programming.dev to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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If Google stopped supporting Firefox today, Bing would still pay to be the default engine. If bing does not pay, Yandex would do.

My point here is Firefox still has 2.71% market share, a lot of search engines operators would pay Firefox good money to be their default engine.

The default search revenue stream is guaranteed as long as they have good amount of users.

But they actively choose to ruin it.

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[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Then why don't these search engines pay for being default?

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 6 points 3 weeks ago

There was a point where Yahoo paid to be the default in America, Google came back at the next opportunity and doubled (IIRC) their offer.

[–] 911@programming.dev -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Because Google is already paying.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

If anyone else offered to pay what Google pays Mozilla would drop Google like an hot potato (like they did Yahoo).

So I wouldn't count on any mythical alternative unless Microsoft decides to waste more money promoting Bing (which wouldn't really be an upgrade privacy wise).