Empowering Choice: Firefox Partners with Qwant for a Better Web
Your tech choices matter more than ever. That’s why at Firefox, we believe in empowering users to make informed decisions that align with their values. I
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Wtf is Qwant?
Edit: oh, OK, it's a search engine. Next questions, what is the nature of the "partnership" and how is this better or different than DDG?
how is this better or different than DDG?
Qwant is using its own index plus Bing. If I remember DDG only using Bing's index and DDG started to censored results in 2022.
Sometimes better search results than DDG (but about the same), EU based (France), offers a Openstreetmap based alternative to google maps (opposed to ddg using Apple Maps) and a slightly worse privacy policy are the main differences
what is the nature of the “partnership”
The partnership is entirely of monetary nature. Like all "partnerships" Mozilla has with 3rd parties that are integrated into Firefox.
That is their business concept. Those companies pay high amounts of money, and Mozilla adds their links into the browser or sends them "anonymized" usage statistics for advertisement purposes.
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
what’s Qwant’s business model.
They sell search queries and meta data (IP address,user agent, etc.) to Microsoft for advertising purposes.
