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minus-square@jbk@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglish0•1 year agoGoogle forcing Firefox to do such a move sounds very anti-competitive. I don’t know if that would ever happen.
minus-square@endofline@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglish0•1 year agoHow do they force them? Just curious so asking
minus-squareDefederateLemmyMllinkfedilinkEnglish0•1 year agoGoogle bankrolls Firefox basically. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-05-05/why-google-keeps-paying-mozilla-s-firefox-even-as-chrome-dominates
minus-square@Avatar_of_Self@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish0•1 year 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.
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 bankrolls Firefox basically.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-05-05/why-google-keeps-paying-mozilla-s-firefox-even-as-chrome-dominates
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.