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this seems to be the theme of the season mateys
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
wow just wow while i can't say i didn't see this one coming but it always amazes me where greed could lead someone
Back in 2005, they started paying Mozilla to promote the Google search engine via their browser. Chrome still wasn't a thing back then. The weird thing is that they never stopped those payments even today, they even increased them on almost a yearly basis.
That was back then.. Why would they do it now that it no longer makes financial sense since Mozilla is just 3% of the browser market? No clue
So there is competition. Firefox goes away there is no other browser and Google is a monopoly.