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Empowering Choice: Firefox Partners with Qwant for a Better Web (blog.mozilla.org)
submitted 7 months ago by hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Right, then the question is, what's Qwant's business model. Where do they get the money from to send to Mozilla? I'm just always so suspicious that the users are the ones getting burned

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

what’s Qwant’s business model.

They sell search queries and meta data (IP address,user agent, etc.) to Microsoft for advertising purposes.