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  • decisivelyhoodnoises@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Google is not funding Firefox only for the search engine being default. Google needs to keep Firefox alive because it is their sole competitor. If Firefox (Mozilla) goes down, Google can be accused for monopoly practices which is something they want to avoid.

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      1 year ago

      I mean, they could also argue that all the Chromium based browsers are not Chrome, and so there is competition (we know how it really is, of course, but they have good lawyers…).

      But I’m sure that’s at least part of the reason why they keep funding it.

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        Chromium comes straight out of Google though. It is not another browser. It is the same engine. They give their engine for free and different companies use it to make their own flavors of the engine of the “Google browser”.

        They’re actually increasing the market share of their browser engine by having chromium open source.This is not competition.

        Mozilla has good lawyers too.