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Google created Chrome, and bribed Mozilla with billions, to keep ad blocking from becoming a standard browser feature. The Google search engine could be run fo

Google created Chrome, and bribed Mozilla with billions, to keep ad blocking from becoming a standard browser feature. The Google search engine could be run for some small number of billions per year (or less) but Google extracts tens of billions per year from our pockets. It's a leech on society in the same way that Wall Street is. They successfully propagandized the idea that "relevant ads are good" when it's patently obvious that relevant search results are what you want from a search engine. There's no need for ads at all.

MarioMan 7y ago
>Google created Chrome, and bribed Mozilla with billions, to keep ad blocking from becoming a standard browser feature. This caught my attention, as I haven't heard anything about this before. Do you have a source with more details on it specifically? All I see is that Google pays Mozilla to make Google Search the default search engine and pays Adblock Plus to whitelist their ads. I'm not seeing any sources indicating that Google paid Mozilla any money to keep ad blocking out of their standard feature set.