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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Google forcing Firefox to do such a move sounds very anti-competitive. I don't know if that would ever happen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

How do they force them? Just curious so asking

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Google pays Firefox hundreds of millions of dollars a year to be their default search engine. In 2021, this accounted for 83% of Mozilla's revenue.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Google bankrolls Firefox basically.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

They don't! Mozilla "by themselves" just "agrees" that MV2 is obsolete because they "prioritize security".