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[–] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

to stave off anti-trust claims

Everyone says this but is it really true?

Edge has almost twice the market share that FireFox does. It wouldn't matter that they both use the same rendering engine, it's a competitor to stave off an anti-trust suit.

If they did need a competitor it would be dramatically more sensible to spin out a fork of chrome and create an org around that, rather than supporting FireFox.

It seems more likely to me that the agreement with FireFox isn't that nefarious - if they don't pay FireFox then they don't get FireFox users in search. That may only be 6% on the desktop, but 6% is significant enough.

[–] kariboka@bolha.forum 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I mentioned that in my post. It's still a competitor. Anti-Trust is not about rendering engines, it's about vendors.