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[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 68 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I keep hearing a lot of negative comments about Mozilla lately. I’m wondering if this move is more in line with then just turning into another google rather than disrupting the marketplace.

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[–] knighthawk0811@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

yeah, might seem good to have yet another choice, but it's an illusion

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[–] mke@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

If they're user funded, their incentives are fundamentally different from Google's. Even thinking as a business, it makes no sense to enshittify the way Google does. It's a different choice, even if it's not the choice you wanted.

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[–] knighthawk0811@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

different, yes. but by how much and will it be different in ways that truly matter

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