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Just imagine the meltdown if Google or Microsoft built that in. Somehow, Mozilla always get the slack and a couple of months down the road they are the saviour
by pronik 5y ago
Just imagine the meltdown if Google or Microsoft built that in. Somehow, Mozilla always get the slack and a couple of months down the road they are the saviour of the privacy world yet again.
- IanSanders 5y agoGoogle and Microsoft did much worse and got away with it
- pronik 5y agoMicrosoft maybe, they seem to be the tech bubble darling right now. Google is officially "The Evil(tm)" right now.
- toastal 5y agoSays who? Seems like neo-EEE with their current porfolio of GitHub, Copilot, Codespaces, Sponsors, NPM, Azure, VS Code, and WSL.
- pronik 5y agoI do agree and do not trust Microsoft one inch. But I've read a lot of "Windows 10 + WSL + VSCode is the ideal dev environment" sentiments on this very site. Along with "Microsoft has changed" vibes.
- skinkestek 5y agoThey appeared to have changed but have changed back it seems and is now ripe for another lawsuit or two for abuse of monopoly power. Just take Google Chrome first.
- genrilz 5y agoGoogle and Microsoft do build that in. Google Chrome's default search engine is Google, so the search suggestions come from Google. I am not sure that Google includes sponsored results in those suggestions, but at the very least they do harvest your data to advertise to you better in the future. Microsoft does the same thing by making Bing their default search engine. Like with Firefox, you have to change your preferences if you want privacy.
- rndgermandude 5y agoGoogle and Microsoft did built that a long time ago. Google Chrome will happily open a Google Search results page for anything you type into the address bar or pick from the suggestions displayed within. And that Google Search results page is full of "sponsored" content. When it comes to Microsoft, it's just the same thing except they call it Bing.
- kunagi7 5y agoWell, both of them already include something a bit similar. Search suggestions are displayed and the items are conditioned to your location, cookies... Pages which know how to trick themselves to the top of this suggestions get visitors straight from the user's navbar. The main difference between Google/Microsoft's approach and Mozilla's is that the pages themselves don't pay to be displayed directly onto your browser's navbar dropdown.