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First time I’ve heard Google being blamed for Mozilla’s self inflicted problems. Google is highly incentivised to make sure Mozilla survives with some reasonabl
by nindalf 2y ago
First time I’ve heard Google being blamed for Mozilla’s self inflicted problems. Google is highly incentivised to make sure Mozilla survives with some reasonable market share. Without Mozilla antitrust enforcement becomes much more likely. That’s why Google pays Mozilla for being the default search engine provider. That’s the main source of revenue for Mozilla.
If Mozilla could maintain 10% market share in perpetuity and also keep signing search licensing agreements with Google that works just fine for Google. Sadly it has a lot less than that.
- palata 2y ago> Google is highly incentivised to make sure Mozilla survives with some reasonable market share. Assuming that "surviving" is good and "reasonable" is... what... 3% and dropping?
- Teever 2y agoFirst time huh? That's surprising. It's only mentioned every time Firefox and Mozilla come up. I'm sure Google would like a slightly healthier captured 'competitor' but that doesn't mean that they didn't put them in this place through subversive practices.