Slightly buried in the news that #Chrome will have to be sold off, there’s also news that Google cannot pay browsers to be their default search engine.
That’s going to have huge effects, especially for browsers like #Firefox - it’s going to be an interesting to see this pan out
#tech #webdev #google #programming #web #code #Mozilla
So a lawsuit against Google will end up killing Firefox?
@superkret weirdly, yeah. Firefox gets the majority of its money from Google paying to be the default browser. If they’re banned from doing that, a lot of browsers will see a big drop in funding.
@hazz223 @superkret I do know what you meant, but i’m a pedant sorry…
No it’s actually to be the default search engine within Firefox.
@MsDropbear425 @superkret sorry yes; you’re correct - typo on my part.
Question; how does one add a quote Luke you have?
I can’t seem to find documents on how to do it, and it doesn’t seem to be markdown?
@hazz223 @superkret Ah, well, it is Markdown, but to apply it during drafting you have to be on an instance that supports it. Many non-Masto instances support it, eg, Friendica, Hubzilla, Diaspora iirc, Firefish, Misskey, Sharkey, Calckey etc, but only a subset of Masto instances do. Mine does, via its use of the
glitch.socfork. I don’t know if you might be able to appeal to your instance’s Admin, otherwise… you’d need to jump ship.@MsDropbear425 @superkret ahhhh ok, thanks!
Glad I’m not going totally mad
And Chrome too. I don’t really see how either of those can be viable without that search engine money.
If happens, it will start a clock ticking for Firefox to replace that income or shrink to a sustainable staff size before their money runs out.
Would Apple be banned from funding Firefox by this?