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Empowering Choice: Firefox Partners with Qwant for a Better Web
(blog.mozilla.org)
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this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2024
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The partnership is entirely of monetary nature. Like all "partnerships" Mozilla has with 3rd parties that are integrated into Firefox.
That is their business concept. Those companies pay high amounts of money, and Mozilla adds their links into the browser or sends them "anonymized" usage statistics for advertisement purposes.
Right, then the question is, what's Qwant's business model. Where do they get the money from to send to Mozilla? I'm just always so suspicious that the users are the ones getting burned
They sell search queries and meta data (IP address,user agent, etc.) to Microsoft for advertising purposes.