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minus-squarejbk@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·11 months agoGoogle forcing Firefox to do such a move sounds very anti-competitive. I don’t know if that would ever happen.
minus-squareendofline@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoHow do they force them? Just curious so asking
minus-squareAvatar_of_Self@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·11 months agoGoogle pays Firefox hundreds of millions of dollars a year to be their default search engine. In 2021, this accounted for 83% of Mozilla’s revenue.
minus-squareDefederateLemmyMl@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·11 months agoGoogle bankrolls Firefox basically. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-05-05/why-google-keeps-paying-mozilla-s-firefox-even-as-chrome-dominates
Google forcing Firefox to do such a move sounds very anti-competitive. I don’t know if that would ever happen.
How do they force them? Just curious so asking
Google pays Firefox hundreds of millions of dollars a year to be their default search engine. In 2021, this accounted for 83% of Mozilla’s revenue.
Google bankrolls Firefox basically.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-05-05/why-google-keeps-paying-mozilla-s-firefox-even-as-chrome-dominates
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