News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on uBlock Origin Forcefully Removed by Chrome. Parent comment

Re:uBlock Origin Forcefully Removed by Chrome by Terr_ on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @11:11PM (#43262668)
Unless it's actually the "best" time, because they didn't want disturbed Firefox users switching the other way...
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:uBlock Origin Forcefully Removed by Chrome by benterix on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @04:20AM (#43264578)
Interesting conspiracy theory, but it would imply they were directly bribed by Google because their normal salary depends on the popularity of Firefox so frankly, it makes little sense.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:uBlock Origin Forcefully Removed by Chrome by sshine on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @05:38AM (#43265033)
I hate to break it to you, but their normal salary depends directly more on Google.

Google paid Mozilla $600M in 2022 for making Google the default search engine in Firefox.

Mozilla is directly bribed by Google.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:uBlock Origin Forcefully Removed by Chrome by rubslopes on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @10:45AM (#43268116)
I think OP meant that they only receive the allowance because they are popular enough.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:uBlock Origin Forcefully Removed by Chrome by tessierashpool9 on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @07:03AM (#43265490)
mozilla is bribed by google on a regular basis and officially at that :)
[ Parent | on HN ]