• Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    If Google stopped sponsoring, Mozilla would go down and Google would get slammed with anti-monopoly lawsuits from the EU.

    So Mozilla can do whatever they want and Google won't stop sending them money. Since that is a lot more profitable in the long run.

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      1 year ago

      Mozilla can do whatever they want and Google won’t stop sending them money.

      So… What are they waiting for? Are they going to rely on gorhill for ever?

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          9 months ago

          Sure, as long as we still have options to disable their blocker and use a 3rd party one if we choose. It’s astounding how many users don’t bother to install an adblocker and it would be a massive improvement for those users who don’t know better.

          There’s been more than one occasion that I’ve used a family member’s PC and they have Firefox installed without a single extension, they didn’t even know that extensions existed.