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>>danShu+(OP)
Which Mozilla knows that they cannot do anything to stop Google anyway.

After all, Google is the one that pays their bills so either way Mozilla is beyond powerless.

>>rvz+l9
Google doesn't pay Mozilla's bills as a donation, they pay for traffic because they make money from it. Why does this make Mozilla powerless? Was Google successful, for example, in making Firefox not support all the things is does that allow for better Ads blocking?

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...

>>yoavm+Ju
At this point in time we can second guess the "they pay for traffic". AFAIK Firefox market share dropped significantly but Google payment stayed mostly the same. Maybe it is now more about not facing antitrust scrutiny, just like when Microsoft "invested" in Apple?

And speaking of Microsoft - I am using Thunderbird 102.6.1, since any newer version doesn't work for me with Outlook365 - MS OAuth implementation requires user agent to be accepted by some "administrator". Looks like great example of what we can expect from Google, even if that Web Integrity get delayed for few years. Mozilla really is powerless - either they cave in, like with video DRM - or their browser won't be useful as daily driver