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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] 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.