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Google is now moderating user's bookmarks and removing them. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Mozilla cannot be unplugged on demand. That would cause Google to become a monopoly, and they would be held to extreme harsh laws by the EU. Like in the case of IE6 back in the day.

Google does not want that, so they donate to Mozilla to keep Firefox as a competitor. And Firefox has to do jack shit in return other than exist.

The only way Firefox could be unplugged is if a new non-chromium browser becomes one of the big browsers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is all technically correct. Although I think it's a little naive to say that a corporation "cannot" do something today. There are lots of things they technically cannot do yet it happens on daily basis.