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Will the ban on Google payments kill Mozillas Firefox? How Google’s antitrust judgement could harm Mozilla and what we all must do to help!


How Google’s antitrust judgement could harm Mozilla and what we all must do to help!

Now the DOJ ruling – which followed one of the largest antitrust cases against Google- seeks to dismantle these arrangements: Google must stop paying other companies for including its search engine as the default, for instance in the Firefox or Safari browser. Unlike Google Chrome, Apple’s Safari or Microsoft Edge, which can rely on resources from their respective parent companies, Mozilla is a nonprofit foundation focused on providing an open-source alternative. While other browsers, including Google Chrome, Safari and Microsoft Edge, incorporate privacy features, they operate within large tech corporations whose primary revenue source is often ad-driven data collection.

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