Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"

• kuhli@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Nah, Google funds them so they can point at them and say they aren’t a monopoly, directing what they do would ruin that.

  Mozilla’s perfectly capable of making dumb decisions on their own, they do that plenty

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  • Eldritch@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    ¿Why not both?

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    • AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Because google only pays Mozilla because of:
      - Maintaining search dominance
      - Preventing anti-monopoly scrutiny

      They don’t want Mozilla to compete in any AI space, because there’s already a ton of competition in the AI space given how much money gets thrown around, so they don’t benefit from anti-monopoly efforts, and there’s so many models that they don’t benefit from search dominance in the AI space. They’d much rather have Mozilla stay a non-AI browser while they get to implement AI features and show shareholders that they’re “the most advanced” of them all, or that “nobody else is doing it like we do”.

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      • Eldritch@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        There’s no real way Mozilla could compete. Google has nothing to fear on that front like the browser front. It’s far more likely Mozilla’s ultimate intention. Is to integrate Gemini or similar further into the browser than they already have. Mozilla is years late to the circle jerk, and everyone else has partnered up.

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  • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I wish you weren’t right. I remember old firefox.

    I will never forgive.

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• frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They are, but that’s only for the search engine thing. Unless Google has a seat on the board.

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  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s for the default search, but it also has the side benefit of ensuring a secondary browser with decent market share that’s not Chromium-based they can point to claiming they’re not a monopoly.

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  • goatinspace@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Google donates to KDE also

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