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Take it easy. Remember Mozilla used to be sponsored by google for letting them be the default search engine? That is product placement if anything is. And you can argue it's sneaky: I didn't realize it until I'd used Firefox for a couple of years.

Actually, quite a few non-profits are sponsored by commercial interests and while sometimes this is a problem, often it is not.

Also: How would you like to fund development of Firefox?



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