Evan, The antitrust case is not about browsers. It is entirely about the search engine access provided, say on a phone or a computer, when someone opens a browser like Firefox and wants to search. The distinction is important Legally, because Google's defense is that their search tool is the best technology so..it should be the default. However Google used their money to insure a market advantage by paying companies to make it the default, which impacts user decisions in the end. Does that make sense? Kare On Tue, 13 Aug 2024, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote:
Exactly the opposite case, IMO.
Google needs (and has always needed) Firefox, exactly to demonstrate that the Chromium engine is not a monopoly. No matter how this case ends, it will not result in pressuring Google to get rid of its biggest browser rival.
- Evan
On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 10:49 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk < talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Apparently 90% of Mozilla's funding comes from Google. Google pays that money to be the default search engine for Firefox. Google may have to stop.