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Not sure how you can disagree with a question, but I looked it up:

>"Back in 2014, the last year of the Google deal, that agreement brought in $323 million of the foundation’s $330 million in total revenue."

They had deal with Yahoo for similar money, and walked from that to go to Google again.

For financials I can find they got all but 2% of their money from Google.

Presumably for this money Google gets to call some shots like no default blocking off their ads, and, I'd imagine autoplay as default if that's important to Google.

I'd expect a supposedly open foundation like Mozilla to publish details of major decisions. You're not open without transparency.



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