[Bombthecat]

And Google will pull out of the deal when they are forced to split off chrome

[iamacyborg]

Why would they? They still want people to use Google Search vs other alternatives.

[nolist_policy]

Google's payment to Mozilla was ruled anti-competitive and is forced to stop paying them.

https://fortune.com/2024/08/05/mozilla-firefox-biggest-poten...

[Certhas]

Interesting, I hadn't heard about this. Let's see where this goes...

[sumedh]

The only reason they pay firefox is to make sure its not killed and they can tell the regulators that look there some competition.

[iamacyborg]

That and the captive audience for their search ads…