00:00But considering that Google Chrome is also open source, will Firefox ever die?
00:04Well, the answer is probably not.
00:06Remember, even though Mozilla is an open source project, it's actually a separate legal entity.
00:12Mozilla is the parent company of Firefox and all the other products that are made by the organization.
00:18So now that we have a good understanding of the history, let's try to answer the question, how does Mozilla
00:24make money?
00:24Since Mozilla is a non-profit, they don't distribute profits to shareholders or founders or executives or anyone else.
00:33Instead, Mozilla is funded through donations, grants, and in the case of Mozilla, corporate sponsorships.
00:39The problem with relying on sponsors, though, is that you're basically at their mercy whenever you need more money.
00:46Sponsors can be great in the beginning, but they don't typically stick around forever.
00:51Take Wikipedia, for example.
00:53At the beginning, they were able to secure a large sum of funding from various tech billionaires.
00:58But since then, most of Wikipedia's funding comes from individual donors.
01:03This brings us into modern day.
01:05Currently, about 90% of Mozilla's revenue comes from search engine licensing fees from companies like Google, and the rest
01:12of it comes from donations.
01:14So basically, Google pays Mozilla to set Firefox as their default search engine.
01:19But why does Google do that?
01:21Well, search engines aren't really businesses.
01:24They're marketplaces.
01:25They connect advertisers to people looking for things.
01:28So the more users that Firefox has, the more users that Google can potentially sell ads to.
01:34This is why Google pays millions of dollars to set their search engine as the default on Firefox.
01:39In 2021, Mozilla brought in a total of $547 million.
01:44For all prices, Google's đầu-class products are more of a full-size app.
01:45But they'll find its websites.
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