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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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    By paying Mozilla a big fat check to set the default search engine to Bing.
    
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  - Snarwin@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    By paying for Bing to be the default search engine of Firefox.
    
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