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Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are “as painful as possible” for Firefox (www.theverge.com)

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[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I believe these are reasonable examples of slightly bending of Mozillas knee to Google, as requested.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The second one isn’t even Mozilla…

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Mozilla chooses to implement Google's phishing list.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The alternative being?

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A non Google supplier

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Such as?

Like, you’re pretty clear about not using Google. The question is, what service exists that is within their ability to pay (free)?

“They shouldn’t use google” is a fine argument, assuming it’s possible to stop using google without incurring huge fees and/or removing the functionality completely.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Why assume they won't pay?

Even for free they could support something like openphish.com and help it grow and maybe outclass Google.

The point is that we don't know the details of their agreement, nor the unwritten rules to guarantee continued support.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

openphish.com would very likely buckle under the load. They’ve had ~2 million urls per day in the past seven days. There are 181 times that many users of Firefox.

Again, I get where you’re coming from. There’s just literally no viable alternative.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Maybe there's no viable alternative because Firefox users are not supplying the demand.

However, rather have the current arrangement than no Firefox. But I suspect that Mozilla are not as free from Google as they would like to be.