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How is it different than Google paying Firefox?

• hirako2000 1y ago
  That's different as X is buying a form of exclusivity there. Paying a browser to become the default search engine is just to serve first. And, there is the argument users are not asking for, nor want Ai features, I bet most don't want it. They just want to chat, with humans that is. They are inserting Ai everywhere they can, not to rank up their product as the kind of product people are looking for, against those of the competitors. A browser without a default search engine is a downgrade for everyone. Although it would be more ethical if it simply prompted for which to default to. One could point at it and see an issue, but that's pretty different.
• nitwit005 1y ago
  Most users would probably use Google by default if forced to pick on install. Google is effectively paying so that their competitors like Microsoft won't sign their own deal and become the default Firefox search instead.