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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
This. I’m pretty sure this is a result of the ad engine changes they made to chrome a few months ago. Manifest V2 is what enables uBlock Origin to be so effective iirc and they’re removing it in chrome in favor of Manifest V3.
Firefox on the other hand still supports V2.
For now, mozilla rely heavily on google for funding.
They dropped xul extensions to have extension compatibility with chrome a few years ago.
How does that work exactly?
Like they are direct competitors no? Wouldn't Mozilla be motivated to fuck google as hard as possible?
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.