Harry W.@mstdn.socialOPtoFirefox@fedia.io•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.
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1 month ago@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.
@jlow if the Google funding dropped out, I really don’t know how tenable it would be to keep the Gecko engine working / with pace with Chromium etc.
Ironic that this is to help competition, when really it’ll probably end it.