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Mozilla just exists so that Google can lie about there "existing competition" on the browser market.

• missedthecue 6y ago
  Edge, Safari, Opera, Firefox, Chrome, and new upstarts like Brave seems like a reasonably competitive market to me.
  • sethish 6y ago
    Except that edge, safari and chrome are all derived from the codebase that Google controls
    • seabrookmx 6y ago
      You mean Edge, Opera and Chrome. Safari runs on WebKit not blink, which has shared lineage but Google has no control over.
  • stu2b50 6y ago
    Maybe numerically, but Chrome alone has 70% marketshare. When you consider that edge runs off of the Chrome engine, Google controls like >80% of how the world sees the web essentially. If Chrome adds a new feature, everyone else must adapt as well.
    • missedthecue 6y ago
      For the average user, Chrome is just the best browser. There is nothing wrong with 70% of consumers liking them more than other browsers because the switching cost is free and there are plenty of alternatives.
      • gruez 6y ago
        On desktop, maybe. But on mobile? Firefox for Android (or fenix), or any other ad-blocking browser (eg. brave) is unequivocally better.
        • missedthecue 6y ago
          Perhaps. People spend less time on the web then when on desktops though. While on mobile they're prefer native apps. By the way, Chrome's market share has been trending down for a while. Only at 58% now. https://www.statista.com/statistics/272697/market-share-desktop-internet-browser-usa/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/272697/market-share-desk...
  • scarface74 6y ago
    Safari is not competition for Chrome. The only people who have a choice between Safari/Webkit and Chrome/Blink are Mac users.