[HacktionLab] {Spam?} {Spam?} Mozilla funding RiseUp "scandal"

[Charlie Harvey]

On 10/10/17 12:55, acesabe wrote:
> Personally I'm more interested in just how Mozilla manage to have the
> funds to afford such generosity

Hi,

AOL helped set the Mozilla foundation up with a big grant, but most of
their revenue is from the search box at the top of the browser.

It used to be that Google paid them to be the default search provider,
now its Yahoo! in the US. I believe they get money from Yandex in Russia
and Baidu in China.

So, given that Yahoo! search is powered by Bing, effectively the money
for Mozilla comes from Microsoft (which is sort of funny if you think
about it).

Here's the latest financials I could dig out though they're rather too
broad to be useful:
https://static.mozilla.com/moco/en-US/pdf/2015_Mozilla_Audited_Financial_Statement.pdf

There should be

Cheers,

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