**Nolan** @nolan@toot.cafe · Dec 05, 2017, 15:41

**Nolan** @nolan@toot.cafe · Dec 05, 2017, 15:41

Nolan @nolan@toot.cafe

"Maintaining An Independent Browser Is Incredibly Expensive" by Robert O'Callahan: http://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/12/maintaining-independent-browser-is.html

Mozilla is the last organization building their own browser engine who isn't also a big tech company (Google, Microsoft, Apple). The work they're doing is incredibly important for maintaining a diverse and vendor-agnostic web.

**Catonano** @catonano@mastodon.social · Dec 05, 2017, 16:32

**Catonano** @catonano@mastodon.social · Dec 05, 2017, 16:32

@nolan 500 millions ? Where does this money come from ?

**Brennan** @Brennan · 2017-12-05T17:28:19Z

Brennan @Brennan

@catonano @nolan Mozilla publishes their financial details. Most $$ come from deals with search providers (Google, then Yahoo for a while, now back to Google)

Dec 05, 2017, 17:28 · Amaroq · 0 · 1

**Catonano** @catonano@mastodon.social · Dec 05, 2017, 17:44

**Catonano** @catonano@mastodon.social · Dec 05, 2017, 17:44

@Brennan @nolan thanks

**Ed Davies** @edavies@octodon.social · Dec 06, 2017, 10:02

**Ed Davies** @edavies@octodon.social · Dec 06, 2017, 10:02

@Brennan @catonano @nolan Ah, that's why my default search engine flipped back from DuckDuckGo to Google recently - probably on the upgrade to 57. Not exactly pleased, but at least I noticed fairly quickly and could put it back easily enough.