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It's funny, I always kept Firefox and Brave (yes I'm aware its chromium and full of fuckery) installed. But as soon as this news broke, before it was even confirmed, I swapped back from Brave to Firefox as my primary. Fuck Google for this. They're just truly not the company they once were.
They never really were the company they claimed to be.
Oh god no, never said otherwise. But for years they struck this equilibrium between evil and quality of services offered in exchange. That value had been rapidly deteriorating for the last 5 years or so. It's just sad to see is all.
I feel like at least they tried to put up that illusion at some point. But that mask has fallen.