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Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 years ago by teft@startrek.website to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] DrDeadCrash@programming.dev 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Google pays to be the default search in Firefox, it was Bing for a while.

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[–] nintendoit@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Also it pays to keep mozilla alive.It helps in defending anti-competitive lawsuits.

Sad to say there are only two engines available for the open web.(Not considering Safari as that is only available on apple)

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[–] Satelllliiiiiiiteeee@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago*

The WebKit engine Safari uses is still open source, Gnome Web and Konqueror use it. It definitely has a small non-apple userbase but it's an option

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