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coldtea on Oct 22, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Chromium calls home even in incognito mode with sa...

From selling its "default search engine" spot -- I'm on this web business professionally since 1995, I know that.

That's not direct ad sales and Mozilla wasn't created with the specific purposes to sell ads or collect private information, nor is owned by an ad-selling company.

Besides you can change the default search engine in a heartbeat.

Confusion on Oct 23, 2015 [–]

I certainly consider that funding by direct ad sales. It's like any other affiliate model: your contribution is to get their product to be sold.

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