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I've always wondered how Mozilla / Firefox makes money? I see that its a non-profit. Looks like sponsored links and content on their new tab?
Mostly from search engines, especially Google. They also own Mozilla Corporation, a for-profit entity which reinvests all of its profits back into the Mozilla Foundation.
They get paid many millions by Google for having Google as the default search, ironically.
It was once a fortune but no longer is as they don't have many users to send to Google.
In recent years they've been trying to find alternate income streams, most recently re-branded mullvad VPN. None of them have worked. There's been a lot of criticism, it's not simple but the case can be made that they have squandered their wealth.
Well as a user of both opera GX and Firefox I haven't seen that many obnoxious links or anything of the like. But then again, I didnt see many when I was on chrome so who knows.
That, but AFAIK they get most of their money for setting google as the default search engine.
When you open a new blank tab you can have like 10 pinned websites in the middle. Sometimes 1-2 of them are sponsored links that you can click the 3 dots and dismiss. That's all I've noticed