Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabledNemeski@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.world – 1012 points – 1 months agobleepingcomputer.com443Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsShow the parent commentGoogle forcing Firefox to do such a move sounds very anti-competitive. I don't know if that would ever happen.How do they force them? Just curious so askingGoogle pays Firefox hundreds of millions of dollars a year to be their default search engine. In 2021, this accounted for 83% of Mozilla's revenue.Google bankrolls Firefox basically. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-05-05/why-google-keeps-paying-mozilla-s-firefox-even-as-chrome-dominatesThey don't! Mozilla "by themselves" just "agrees" that MV2 is obsolete because they "prioritize security".
Google forcing Firefox to do such a move sounds very anti-competitive. I don't know if that would ever happen.How do they force them? Just curious so askingGoogle pays Firefox hundreds of millions of dollars a year to be their default search engine. In 2021, this accounted for 83% of Mozilla's revenue.Google bankrolls Firefox basically. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-05-05/why-google-keeps-paying-mozilla-s-firefox-even-as-chrome-dominatesThey don't! Mozilla "by themselves" just "agrees" that MV2 is obsolete because they "prioritize security".
How do they force them? Just curious so askingGoogle pays Firefox hundreds of millions of dollars a year to be their default search engine. In 2021, this accounted for 83% of Mozilla's revenue.Google bankrolls Firefox basically. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-05-05/why-google-keeps-paying-mozilla-s-firefox-even-as-chrome-dominatesThey don't! Mozilla "by themselves" just "agrees" that MV2 is obsolete because they "prioritize security".
Google pays Firefox hundreds of millions of dollars a year to be their default search engine. In 2021, this accounted for 83% of Mozilla's revenue.
Google bankrolls Firefox basically. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-05-05/why-google-keeps-paying-mozilla-s-firefox-even-as-chrome-dominates
They don't! Mozilla "by themselves" just "agrees" that MV2 is obsolete because they "prioritize security".
Google forcing Firefox to do such a move sounds very anti-competitive. I don't know if that would ever happen.
How do they force them? Just curious so asking
Google pays Firefox hundreds of millions of dollars a year to be their default search engine. In 2021, this accounted for 83% of Mozilla's revenue.
Google bankrolls Firefox basically.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-05-05/why-google-keeps-paying-mozilla-s-firefox-even-as-chrome-dominates
They don't! Mozilla "by themselves" just "agrees" that MV2 is obsolete because they "prioritize security".