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Hot take: Google keeps Mozilla/Firefox alive through the default search engine placement (which makes Mozilla millions each year) so they don't get designated a
by sva_ 3mo ago
Hot take: Google keeps Mozilla/Firefox alive through the default search engine placement (which makes Mozilla millions each year) so they don't get designated as a monopoly with their browser.
- BbzzbB 3mo agoThat's lukewarm at most, doubt you'll find many people disagreeing here!
- Vinnl 3mo agoAnd of course they're doing the same for Apple/Safari, which wouldn't survive without the $20 million default search engine placement deal.
- oblio 3mo ago> And of course they're doing the same for Apple/Safari, which wouldn't survive without the $20 million default search engine placement deal. Billion with a B, as in 10 zeroes, not 7.
- Vinnl 3mo agoOops sorry, too late to edit, but you're correct!
- sva_ 3mo agoApple forcing users to use their own browser/browsing engine doesn't disprove my argument IMO, virtually nobody outside the apple ecosystem uses Safari, and outside the apple ecosystem is something between 80-90% of internet users.
- Vinnl 3mo agoI wasn't saying that Apple is just as monopolistic as Google; I was saying that Google is paying Apple orders of magnitude more than it is paying Mozilla. According to your argument, that would mean that Google is trying to keep Apple/Safari alive (which of course is absurd - Apple doesn't need that money to stay alive).
- static_motion 3mo agoThat's not a hot take, that's just factual.