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Gobbling up hundreds of millions of dollars to finance non-core missions and fat director bonuses while you sack the Servo development team might be a cause.


They generated that money.


The ads from a search engine that bought Doubleclick generated that money.


Yes, they pass a fraction down to other companies that generate traffic for them, it's a little known model.

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No, they don't. Firefox represents essentially $0 of revenue for Google because their market share is tiny and rate of adblock usage is high.

The only reason Google gives money to Mozilla is because they don't want to get sued for monopoly.

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Source for this conjecture?

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Firefox market share: 2.17%

Firefox ad block use: 17.81%

Remaining addressable Firefox market share: 1.78%

So essentially peanuts.

Especially since most of said users would have used Google anyway.

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Seems to me that percentage is commensurate with the "peanuts" figure Google pay them, vs their annual revenue.

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Haha thats a good one.


They didn't, Google gave them most of that money and the community a bit as well.




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