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does Google severly dislike Firefox?? (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by 01adrianrdgz@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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with the recent news about the things that were said about Google slowing down Firefox on purpose, are they doing this because they severily dislike Firefox/open source? :c If so, that wouldn't make a lot of sense!!! Because Google loves open source too. I read they were doing this to stop adblockers, and well if you use Firefox without those, it can work maybe! I use Chromium and Google Chrome on Ubuntu ^u^

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[–] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They like anything that can generate profits for them, The point isn't open source. If OSS can give them more benefits, they are 1000% happy to do.

Say Chromium, yeah they OSS it, but also give them power to define web standards. Many sites would "advice" its user to use Chrome or Edge. Why? Because Chromium based browers had almost 90% market share. Why bother to make it compatiable with other browers? Then the Manifest v3 and Web Environment Integrity shit came out.

They didn't dislike FF particular, but anything that hurt their profit, as any for-profit company would do.