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by latexr 696 days ago
That is provably false. Safari isn’t funded by advertising, neither is Orion, or LibreWolf, or any number of other smaller open-source browsers.
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mccr8 696 days ago
According to news stories, Apple received $20 billion dollars in 2022 from Google to make Google the default search in Safari.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/2/24147007/google-paid-apple...

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latexr 696 days ago
Which is easy money that Apple uses for the company as a whole. They don’t make Safari because of Google’s money nor is it likely they would stop developing it if that money was no longer paid.
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