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[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

what is the nature of the “partnership”

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.

[-] akilou@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

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

[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

what’s Qwant’s business model.

They sell search queries and meta data (IP address,user agent, etc.) to Microsoft for advertising purposes.

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