Comment on Unpacking Google’s new “dangerous” Web-Environment-Integrity specification

randomaccount43543@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Nevoic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Over 85% of Mozilla’s income comes from their Google search deal. Google is keeping Mozilla alive to prevent antitrust issues. If Mozilla rocks the boat too much, Google will fund a more obedient alternative.

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  • Goodie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So your answer to “Google is evil use another browser” is… if we all swap to Firefox google will kill it?

    Google is keeping Firefox alive because 5% of all web users using Google search by default is pretty useful for them.

    If you want to avoid that, simply use firefox and set your search to DuckDuckGo/Bing. If Google drops them, Microsoft have already shown a want to step up into that position.

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    • Dnn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If Google drops them, Microsoft have already shown a want to step up into that position.

      Oh really? By replacing IE with yet another Chromium browser? Or what did I miss?

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      • Goodie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        By paying Mozilla a big fat check to set the default search engine to Bing.

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      • Snarwin@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        By paying for Bing to be the default search engine of Firefox.

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• mrmanager@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  About 5 years too late but appriciated still.

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• Imgonnatrythis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why are you pushing Firefox when Vivaldi did the work of writing this article and Vivaldi has consistently been pro-user, pro privacy, and anti-google even while using Chromium as their backbone. Viva Vivaldi.

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