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I wonder if it would be worth for Google to finance Mozilla regardless of its user base. Just to keep it around as a competitor to Chrome to avoid monopoly issu

I wonder if it would be worth for Google to finance Mozilla regardless of its user base. Just to keep it around as a competitor to Chrome to avoid monopoly issues with regulators.

mc32 6y ago
My naive guess is that this is why they continue to fund it.
gjsman-1000 6y ago
Google funds Mozilla because of this (keeping them around as puppet competition) and also because of their market share. However, with browsers like Brave, Edge, and Vivaldi rising and Firefox's market share falling, Google doesn't need Firefox as its puppet much longer to avoid antitrust scrutiny, and Firefox's dwindling share reduces the value of it's userbase and thus the default search engine contract, so I would not be surprised if Google eventually cuts the funding.
- EveYoung 6y ago
  But all those competitors are based on Chromium and therefore not really independent. Not sure if this matters in a potential antitrust suit?
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