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It seems like a profit-driven thing to me. Big piles of anonymized data are worth a pretty penny.

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Mozilla famous non-profit status notwithstanding of course

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Mozilla Foundation has a wholly owned subsidiary that is Mozilla Corporation that is for-profit.

For instance the revenue from Google, so they’re the default search engine, is seen by Mozilla Corporation. So things search-related will indeed be part of their for-profit arm.

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It’s technically for profit, but it has a single shareholder: the Foundation. There are no greedy shareholders that can get rich off of that profit.

Of course, employees/board members can be richly compensated, but that’s independent of for-/non-profit status.

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I’d like to read more on that if you have anything. Seems like too big a loophole ?

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A non-profit can, in fact, profit, but it has specific rules on what it can do with those profits. Tax law is a rabbit hole and I don’t even wanna peer in

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Used to work for a non-profit retirement community in a pretty small area; the guy running the joint lived in a $3M “house” with a full 7 car garage.

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Enshitification hits every company, even Mozilla.

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Unfortunately Mozilla is being run by a McKinsey consultant.

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