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A comment on Google’s approach to replacing the cookie is drawing antitrust scrutiny. Parent comment

Re:Google’s approach to replacing the cookie is drawing anti... by geofft on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @06:44PM (#26020777)
Linux kernel development survives because its biggest users develop it.

It's certainly possible for a browser to survive that way, but Konqueror doesn't seem to be terribly successful.

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Re:Google’s approach to replacing the cookie is drawing anti... by throwaway3699 on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @06:49PM (#26020829)
It's also worth thinking that many of those big users are also the very adtech companies people are hating on here, but for some reason it's fine to fund kernels and not web browsers with ads.
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Re:Google’s approach to replacing the cookie is drawing anti... by josefx on Thursday February 04, 2021 @04:45AM (#26024084)
It would be interesting to know if Google engineers regularly commit kernel patches breaking Microsoft's Azure integration while pushing people to Google cloud.
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