[-] 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.

[-] hazz223@mstdn.social 8 points 1 day ago

@superkret weirdly, yeah. Firefox gets the majority of its money from Google paying to be the default browser. If they're banned from doing that, a lot of browsers will see a big drop in funding.

[-] hazz223@mstdn.social 3 points 1 day ago

@zoostation good question. Though in Apples case, they're probably fine. They make a tonne of cash, and have a pile of it ๐Ÿ˜…

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submitted 1 day ago by hazz223@mstdn.social to c/firefox@fedia.io

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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