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Re:DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome by Certhas on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @03:55AM (#42181297)
Firefox is massively profitable at a fraction of Chrome's marketshare.
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Re:DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome by professor_v on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @04:12AM (#42181397)
With 81% [1] of their revenue in 2022 provided by Google...

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[1] https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2022/mozilla-fdn-202...

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Re:DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome by Bombthecat on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @04:31AM (#42181524)
And Google will pull out of the deal when they are forced to split off chrome
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Re:DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome by iamacyborg on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @04:41AM (#42181601)
Why would they? They still want people to use Google Search vs other alternatives.
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Re:DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome by nolist_policy on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @05:22AM (#42181885)
Google's payment to Mozilla was ruled anti-competitive and is forced to stop paying them.

https://fortune.com/2024/08/05/mozilla-firefox-biggest-poten...

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Re:DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome by Certhas on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @12:23PM (#42185928)
Interesting, I hadn't heard about this. Let's see where this goes...
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Re:DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome by sumedh on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @05:18AM (#42181863)
The only reason they pay firefox is to make sure its not killed and they can tell the regulators that look there some competition.
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Re:DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome by iamacyborg on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @06:18AM (#42182239)
That and the captive audience for their search ads…
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Re:DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome by Certhas on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @05:43AM (#42182012)
Yes, but they have successfully been shrinking that down from 94% in 2016.

Long road towards independence, but moving in the right direction at least.

And the default spot in the search bar is valuable to people outside of Google. Even if we assume that Google is overpaying, Mozilla could keep operating as is with another entity paying significantly less...

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Re:DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome by whywhywhywhy on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @05:29AM (#42181927)
How much of that money is from Google?
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