Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unrelated page

Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by cubefox on Thursday May 25, 2023 @07:48PM (#36077945)

No, the other way round: People who support Firefox fight the dominance of the Chromium engine. If anything, one engine dominating is bad for the Web. (There is also Safari, but for Apple OSes only.)

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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by grt_thr on Thursday May 25, 2023 @07:49PM (#36077961)

If Firefox was bad for Google then would Google be paying them 500m a year?

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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by Phrodo_00 on Thursday May 25, 2023 @07:52PM (#36077982)

You could argue they do this in order to keep antitrust from looking at chrome too closely.

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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by cubefox on Thursday May 25, 2023 @07:56PM (#36078020)

Google paid Firefox for search before Chrome even existed.

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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by Phrodo_00 on Friday May 26, 2023 @03:32AM (#36081168)

Yes, and at that point it was because Firefox was the second most popular browser. Motivations do change.

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Re:Firefox displayed a pop-up ad for Mozilla VPN over an unr... by wkat4242 on Friday May 26, 2023 @04:03AM (#36081364)

Of course but their reasoning will have changed over time. Because Firefox's market share has changed tremendously as well.

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