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Google, an advertising company, pays for the vast majority of Firefox development in exchange for being the default search engine. Bundling an ad blocker with F
by ndiddy 4y ago
Google, an advertising company, pays for the vast majority of Firefox development in exchange for being the default search engine. Bundling an ad blocker with Firefox seems like a pretty bad idea in this situation.
- hkt 4y agoAnd yet, Firefox is an antitrust fig leaf for chrome. EU regulators won't take kindly to Google having an effective monopoly on web browsers, all the more so since MS adopted the same browser engine. If the choices became chrome or WebKit, said regulators would likely be at least curious enough to look.