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by Sleepytime 1828 days ago
In practice when Mozilla is the only real competition to Chrome and wouldn't exist without Google's funding, it's a conflict of interest regardless.

All it does is make the situation more 'death by a thousand papercuts' than any single standard/extension.

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> Mozilla is the only real competition to Chrome

Apple is the only real competition to Chrome. Apple has 18% market share, compared to Mozilla's 3%. https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share

I don't consider a closed source browser on equal footing. Is there a safari equivalent to chromium?
It still has market share no matter how open or closed it is lmao
Not entirely, but sort of.

https://webkit.org

Safari has an open source browser engine which is also used by gtk and gnome(Gnome Web)
And the only reason Google sponsors them is to pretend there's competition.