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Why Bother With uBlock Being Blocked In Chrome? Now Is The Best Time To Switch To Firefox (tuta.com)
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Why Bother With uBlock Being Blocked In Chrome? Now Is The Best Time To Switch To Firefox::Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs.

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[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's a shame that Firefox is still heavily reliant on Google. It's not chrome but we really do need some competition in this space that doesn't feed the monster and is also not safari lol.

[–] Zacryon@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

How does it rely on Google?

[–] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

funding, mainly.

[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 months ago

That's right. If chrome didn't suck that much, no one would be funding firefox. Thanks Google!

[–] Zacryon@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, good point. Well at least that's just a deal to set the default search engine. Is there more?

[–] SourceSeeker@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

More, as far as I know. Google has to at least keep it afloat, or else be accused of being a monopoly. It's a small price to pay for them.

[–] ours@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Much like Microsoft bailing out Apple back in the day.

Finance an underdog so when someone complains about anti-competitiveness, you can point your finger at them and claim there's healthy competition.

[–] Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Something like 90% of Mozilla's funding comes from Google paying them to make Google the default search engine in Firefox.