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Re:Firefox marketshare revisited by jventura on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @03:03PM (#14806926)
Does anyone know why they do this? Do they earn some extra money per each Chrome install or something like that?
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Re:Firefox marketshare revisited by JohnTHaller on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @03:08PM (#14806972)
Google is paying the app makers for the bundleware per install.
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Re:Firefox marketshare revisited by josteink on Thursday July 20, 2017 @08:39AM (#14811927)
When other companies are doing this, we're usually pretty quick to call it by a different name: spyware, malware.

Bundleware makes it sound like it's just some innocent "bloat", while in reality this effectively hijacks all web traffic of innocent users and sends it to Google.

How is this not criminal?

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