Comment on Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome

• DrDeadCrash@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Google pays to be the default search in Firefox, it was Bing for a while.

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  • nintendoit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Also it pays to keep mozilla alive.It helps in defending anti-competitive lawsuits.

    Sad to say there are only two engines available for the open web.(Not considering Safari as that is only available on apple)

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    • Satelllliiiiiiiteeee@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The WebKit engine Safari uses is still open-source, Gnome Web and Konqueror use it. It definitely has a small non-apple userbase but it's an option

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