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"We've won, but at what cost?" (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

this does mystify me. only time I nearly dropped firefox was when they did the big change that broke add ons but firefox with the addons I like is the best browser for me. nothing they have done has been consequentially bad. philosophically maybe but the actual effect is not bad compared to any other options.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I think people make a way too big of a deal out of the “Google is the default search engine” thing. If you are worried about that, you can turn it off with like two clicks. For the money they are (were I guess) handed to set that it’s clearly worth it and I would’ve done the same exact thing.

Besides that I just don’t think there is enough reason to be so anti-Firefox. Especially given our current internet climate. And for those who really are that adamant, there are plenty of forks.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

oh yeah. duck duck go is for my firefox. duck duck go is another one with a lot of drama that amounts to nothing. have tried a few alts but went back.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Same. DDG is fine/flawed, google is terrible (morally and otherwise) and the results are actively getting worse.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

For the money they are (were I guess) handed to set that it’s clearly worth it.

Not disagreeing with you. I just want to point out that Google is probably deliberately "overpaying" on this Mozilla deal, because they want to keep Firefox afloat, because they don't want to catch a court ruling that they are monopolizing the browser market too.

Dirty tricks with web browsers is the antitrust charge that actually caught Microsoft in the 90s.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

I mean let Google play their stupid game and cash the checks. I understand the moral question here but in reality we make compromises, and that compromise didn’t fundamentally break Firefox or make it suddenly untrustworthy. This has always been out in the open and with clear, simple consequences. Mozilla/Firefox get money, Google is default (but easily changeable) search engine.