Slightly buried in the news that #Chrome will have to be sold off, there’s also news that Google cannot pay browsers to be their default search engine.
That’s going to have huge effects, especially for browsers like #Firefox - it’s going to be an interesting to see this pan out

#tech #webdev #google #programming #web #code #Mozilla

    • Harry W.OP
      7•1 month ago

      @superkret weirdly, yeah. Firefox gets the majority of its money from Google paying to be the default browser. If they’re banned from doing that, a lot of browsers will see a big drop in funding.

    • @[email protected]
      5•1 month ago

      And Chrome too. I don’t really see how either of those can be viable without that search engine money.

    • @markstos
      4•1 month ago

      If happens, it will start a clock ticking for Firefox to replace that income or shrink to a sustainable staff size before their money runs out.

      Would Apple be banned from funding Firefox by this?