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Re:Google breaks search for Firefox users because of bad UA ... by forward1 on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @12:56PM (#38929392)
If they already took substantial market share, why would they need tofurther break Firefox users' experience? You just made my point for me.
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Re:Google breaks search for Firefox users because of bad UA ... by gkbrk on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @01:12PM (#38929650)
> why would they need tofurther break Firefox users' experience

To prevent the market share from going up? That's the logical thing to do after spending millions developing and marketing your browser to the number 1 spot.

Why would they waste that money and effort by playing nice now and letting the market share go back up?

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Re:Google breaks search for Firefox users because of bad UA ... by forward1 on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @01:32PM (#38929941)
Not everything is a conspiracy. Sometimes users just prefer faster, better advertised, better supported software. To suggest Google is actively and wilfully interfering with <3% of browser market share is just so ridiculous, so foolish, it is actually amusing.
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