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Firefox, I doubt it. They love the ad money so biting the hand that feeds them is risky, never know who will feed them next and how much. Microsoft might, even
by tryingagainbro 9y ago
Firefox, I doubt it. They love the ad money so biting the hand that feeds them is risky, never know who will feed them next and how much.
Microsoft might, even though Bing is profitable and in 2015 brought in ~ $1b a quarter https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/22/bing-is-profitable/ https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/22/bing-is-profitable/ . Might be too much money for Microsoft to ruin it.
All Apple right I think, but if they wanted to hurt Google they could start a search engine, maybe by buying DDG.
- mda 9y agoDDG is not a search engine.
- nf05papsjfVbc 9y agoIs it ice-cream? Dance Dance Gelato?
- __sr__ 9y agoCan you elaborate? DuckDuckGo[1] sure looks like a search engine to me. [1] https://duckduckgo.com/ https://duckduckgo.com/
- manquer 9y agoOP probably means that DDG uses Bing search results to populate the index
- 482794793792894 9y agoAs a browser vendor, yes, you have to try to not piss off advertisers, because if website owners don't make money off of your browser, they're not going to test against it much, but why would you list that reason specifically for Firefox? Firefox is the browser that's willing to bite advertisers' hands more than any other browser. They even ship effectively an ad blocker in Private Browsing.