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Re:Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy by paulryanrogers on Friday February 09, 2024 @08:38AM (#39314713)
Mozilla sold defaults to a variety of vendors, most notably Yahoo, and others outside the US. Arguably they should have refused Google money from the jump.
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Re:Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy by acdha on Friday February 09, 2024 @09:07AM (#39314962)
The thing is, they’re in a really expensive place and almost everyone on the web has been trained to think of browsers as free. I don’t know what alternatives they could have picked at the time.
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Re:Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy by paulryanrogers on Saturday February 10, 2024 @11:15AM (#39327297)
My point is they had no way out. It was a glass cliff. Only regulations can stand up to competitors as powerful as Google and Apple.
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