• Goodie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    So your answer to “Google is evil use another browser” is… if we all swap to Firefox google will kill it?

    Google is keeping Firefox alive because 5% of all web users using Google search by default is pretty useful for them.

    If you want to avoid that, simply use firefox and set your search to DuckDuckGo/Bing. If Google drops them, Microsoft have already shown a want to step up into that position.

    • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social
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      1 year ago

      All good advice, but nevoic makes a good point. Google is too big to be meaningfully threatened by Mozilla, if firefox pulls a critical mass away from google, they will absolutely move to kill it.

      Google needs to be broken up, and the US govt isn’t going to just volunteer to do that on their own given how valuable google’s data is to the intelligence agencies.