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Re:Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice by k4rthik on Saturday August 16, 2014 @07:48AM (#8185951)
I agree with Paul Graham on this one. "Has any other company grown to Google's size and remained as benevolent? (Not saying they're perfect, just the best that big.)" (https://twitter.com/paulg/status/495948643149426688) I'll stick with Chrome for now as I find it slightly better than firefox.
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Re:Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice by stephenr on Saturday August 16, 2014 @08:09AM (#8185981)
We obviously have very different ideas about what “benevolent” means.
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Re:Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice by pasiaj on Saturday August 16, 2014 @07:58AM (#8185966)
While I do agree, there have been many signs that times they are a changin'
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Re:Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice by TeMPOraL on Saturday August 16, 2014 @08:15AM (#8185994)
Please enumerate at least some of those signs.
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Re:Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice by BrandonM on Saturday August 16, 2014 @09:52AM (#8186188)
A different user replied with a very comprehensive list that is now inexplicably deleted. It included a story about Google using its leverage to oust location services competitor SkyHook: http://mobile.theverge.com/2011/05/12/google-android-skyhook...

Edit: looks like they changed it to a top-level comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8186125

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Re:Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice by ulfw on Saturday August 16, 2014 @08:18AM (#8186004)
That's not a word that comes to mind when I think of Google+
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