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Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So the lawsuit appears to be looking at Google as a search engine monopoly, not web browser, right? And if I'm understanding this right, assuming this lawsuit goes anywhere, it would actually incentivize Google to pull funding from Firefox to no longer support that search engine exclusivity deal.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Google still benefits from having Firefox around, so that they can maintain less of an appearance of a monopoly in the browser space. Whatever way they fund Firefox, it's still to their benefit to do so.