I wonder if this ruling over search engines could spook them with browser development as well considering they nearly have a monopoly with chromium too. Perhaps they’ll release control of it and stop pushing anti-consumer updates like removing your ability to block ads.
Bluefruit@lemmy.world 1 month ago
While I do want competition in the web space, its a good thing that Google could get told to stop doing stuff like this.
I dont want Mozilla to die of course but companies need to be held responsible for all the shit they pull. I’d imagine if Mozilla wasnt able to maintain firefox anymore it would fall to the open source community like they said in the article and I’d probably still use it.
No one company should own the internet.
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 1 month ago
floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Who in the open-source community would pay what it costs to develop Firefox? I hope some organization would, but it’s a huge and expensive project to run.
Bluefruit@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Great question that I dont have an answer for. Maybe one of the foundations that supports Linux development? This is just my hope though. No idea what it would really take to maintain Firefox at this point. Maybe if it was scaled down or something it’d be ok in the hands of just the open source community as a whole but I’m not well versed in programming or development so i dont know.
I gotta try and be optimistic about this kinda stuff because i forsee a future where Google just ruins more and more of the internet and i hate the thought of that.
MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Servo is now being looked after by the Linux Foundation in Europe, but is only maintained by volunteers. But another project has arrived that is not based on Chromium, Webkit or Firefox, which may be a hope in this somewhat confusing situation.
bufalo1973@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I’m thinking of governments using it and helping. They could have their computers running without Google sticking its nose.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 month ago
In before Meta buys Mozilla, lol.
zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh hey, you managed to think up the one scenario that would make me abandon Firefox
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Not at their revenues come from Google and other sources are enough to cover Firefox development… But that would mean giving up on all the useless shit no one asked for they’re working on…
EmilyIsTrans@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Mozilla’s next largest source of revenue is subscriptions and advertising (source 2021 financial report), by a wide margin. That “useless shit” is their other revenue, and they’re investing in it because they know they need to diversify revenue to fund Firefox. You’re suggesting they kill it because it’s not their core (unprofitable) business?