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Well, yes. It’s almost all of their annual revenue and Mozilla already had huge layoffs[0], so presumably they’re not exactly on amazing footing financially. Duckduckgo could not provide anything near that much - ddg has 100m in annual revenue and Google is giving 500m to Mozilla. 5x their entire company’s annual revenue.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/11/21363424/mozilla-layoffs-...



If an organisation can be in financial trouble with an annual income of half a billion then it's poorly run. That's ample resources even for something as complex as a browser.


You could do a lot of science for $500M. I wonder where all that money goes for a mostly complete piece of software.


It goes into changing the UI every 6 months and removing features, of course




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