• 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
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    3 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
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      3 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