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Yeah, free and "viable" alternatives funded at 90% by said monopoly haha.

• Barrin92 2y ago
  There's no way Mozilla can win on this. You can't charge for a browser at the scale to compete with Google, not enough people will pay. When they start to open up alternative services that actually could generate revenue, people yell at them and tell them to work on the browser. This is 100% on the consumers, over and over open source projects receive no funding and exist by virtue of big companies subsidizing them because nobody is willing to pay for their principles.
  • pessimizer 2y ago
    This is 100% on the government failing to regulate monopolies. This is 100% on Microsoft antitrust action over the browser war being allowed to degenerate into farce. This is 100% on people defending arrangements like this by guilt-tripping consumers: instead of Mozilla's relationship with Google being corrupt, it's actually the entire rest of the world that is corrupt. If Firefox can't survive without Google, then at least they won't be able to beard for Google's monopoly.
• adolph 2y ago
  Lots of people are getting paid by Google to be default. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai on Tuesday confirmed that Google pays Apple 36% of Safari search revenue, under the terms of a default search agreement that is core to the Justice Department’s antitrust claims. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/14/google-pays-apple-36percent-of-safari-search-revenue-sundar-pichai.html https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/14/google-pays-apple-36percent-...