• kuhli@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 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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      4 days ago

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

      • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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        3 days 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.