**Nolan** @nolan · 2017-12-05T15:40:59Z

Nolan @nolan

"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.

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**Brennan** @Brennan@social.brennanbenkert.com · Dec 05, 2017, 16:00

**Brennan** @Brennan@social.brennanbenkert.com · Dec 05, 2017, 16:00

@nolan Now I feel bad for being upset that google ad tracking is all over the getting started page 😔

**Abbie Normal** @catonano@mastodon.social · Dec 05, 2017, 16:31

**Abbie Normal** @catonano@mastodon.social · Dec 05, 2017, 16:31

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

**Brennan** @Brennan@social.brennanbenkert.com · Dec 05, 2017, 17:28

**Brennan** @Brennan@social.brennanbenkert.com · Dec 05, 2017, 17:28

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

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

**Abbie Normal** @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.