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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 week ago (10 children)

We are facing a very real possibility of the end of the web browser as we know it. Google owns the chromium engine. Mozilla is on ever more precarious footing. It's become logistically impossible to build competing products except for tech giant. Even then everybody else gave up and went with chromium.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (6 children)

And Mozilla is largely funded by Google. We all just hope they don’t pull the rug from them but I have no faith that our inept, slow government would stop that from happening before it’s too late.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Almost certainly the entire reason Google is funding Mozilla is to try and stave off antitrust lawsuits.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Yep.

Google will spend more on a legal team working out how to prevent the lawsuits in the first place than they would be giving to Mozilla

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