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Slightly buried in the news that #Chrome will have to be sold off, there's also news that Google cannot pay browsers to be their default search engine. (mstdn.social)
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Slightly buried in the news that #Chrome will have to be sold off, there's also news that Google cannot pay browsers to be their default search engine.
That's going to have huge effects, especially for browsers like #Firefox - it's going to be an interesting to see this pan out

#tech #webdev #google #programming #web #code #Mozilla

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[-] hazz223@mstdn.social 2 points 1 day ago

@jlow if the Google funding dropped out, I really don't know how tenable it would be to keep the Gecko engine working / with pace with Chromium etc.

Ironic that this is to help competition, when really it'll probably end it.

[-] jlow@beehaw.org 2 points 8 hours ago

That would be just awful, I cant really believe that is going to happen. I'd think it end up maybe be a browser for "just" browsing websites and you'd need a Chrom(ium) based one (or - like back the day! - specialised programs!) for fancy stuff like videocalling, DRM video playback, docs, chat and whatever else you do in the browser nowadays. Which would be awful as well but ...

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