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Unpacking Google’s new “dangerous” Web-Environment-Integrity specification (vivaldi.com)
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[–] Nevoic 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Over 85% of Mozilla's income comes from their Google search deal. Google is keeping Mozilla alive to prevent antitrust issues. If Mozilla rocks the boat too much, Google will fund a more obedient alternative.

[–] Goodie 87 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So your answer to "Google is evil use another browser" is... if we all swap to Firefox google will kill it?

Google is keeping Firefox alive because 5% of all web users using Google search by default is pretty useful for them.

If you want to avoid that, simply use firefox and set your search to DuckDuckGo/Bing. If Google drops them, Microsoft have already shown a want to step up into that position.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All good advice, but nevoic makes a good point. Google is too big to be meaningfully threatened by Mozilla, if firefox pulls a critical mass away from google, they will absolutely move to kill it.

Google needs to be broken up, and the US govt isn't going to just volunteer to do that on their own given how valuable google's data is to the intelligence agencies.

[–] Goodie 1 points 1 year ago

Google is already moving to kill Mozilla. Its just a matter of it we let it go quietly into the night.