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"We've won, but at what cost?" (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 23 points 2 years ago (1 child)

this does mystify me. only time I nearly dropped firefox was when they did the big change that broke add ons but firefox with the addons I like is the best browser for me. nothing they have done has been consequentially bad. philosophically maybe but the actual effect is not bad compared to any other options.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    I think people make a way too big of a deal out of the “Google is the default search engine” thing. If you are worried about that, you can turn it off with like two clicks. For the money they are (were I guess) handed to set that it’s clearly worth it and I would’ve done the same exact thing.

    Besides that I just don’t think there is enough reason to be so anti-Firefox. Especially given our current internet climate. And for those who really are that adamant, there are plenty of forks.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    For the money they are (were I guess) handed to set that it’s clearly worth it.

    Not disagreeing with you. I just want to point out that Google is probably deliberately "overpaying" on this Mozilla deal, because they want to keep Firefox afloat, because they don't want to catch a court ruling that they are monopolizing the browser market too.

    Dirty tricks with web browsers is the antitrust charge that actually caught Microsoft in the 90s.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    I mean let Google play their stupid game and cash the checks. I understand the moral question here but in reality we make compromises, and that compromise didn’t fundamentally break Firefox or make it suddenly untrustworthy. This has always been out in the open and with clear, simple consequences. Mozilla/Firefox get money, Google is default (but easily changeable) search engine.

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