Note: Original report by Bloomberg, article by Reuters proxied by Neuters to bypass paywall.

  • Scrollone@feddit.it
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    1 month ago

    It will never happen. But it would be a good thing for the openness of the web. More Firefox, less Chrome.

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      1 month ago

      Yep.

      Tech companies have extreme “Fuck You” money. They have learned a lot from the past two decades of Antitrust acts.

      That politician is either going to quickly change their mind with some bribes, or watch their entire life disappear with an army of lawyers or paid off peers shutting them down.

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      1 month ago

      Wouldn’t it put Firefox on a pickle? Say Chrome gets bought out of Google’s hands, would they still bother to pay half a billion to Firefox to stay as the default search engine? Could Firefox survive being financially independent?