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1. Google strangles Firefox through advertising for Chrome as a better browser on their web properties, breaking Firefox on their web properties (the famous oop
by blub 4y ago
1. Google strangles Firefox through advertising for Chrome as a better browser on their web properties, breaking Firefox on their web properties (the famous oopsies) and bundling the Chrome installer with installers for other software.
2. Google enjoys a browser monopoly and can dictate features as standards to support their data collection and advertising business.
3. Google thanks Mozilla from the bottom of their heart for developing Rust, so all is forgotten :-)
- lolinder 4y ago0) Google pays Mozilla hundreds of millions of dollars to keep it as the default searh engine. This sum represents most of Mozilla's revenue. I'm no fan of Google, but their relationship with Mozilla is complicated, not strictly adversarial.
- cyber_kinetist 4y agoThere’s also a slightly hidden reason: keeping Mozilla’s Firefox as a competitor lets you get away with being hammered by antitrust regulations (which Microsoft already had the experience with IE)
- kaba0 4y agoThat money is much much less than an otherwise following monopoly lawsuit would cost them. It is more like a symbiotic relationship on this account.