• kuhli@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      12 hours ago

      Nah, Google funds them so they can point at them and say they aren’t a monopoly, directing what they do would ruin that.

      Mozilla’s perfectly capable of making dumb decisions on their own, they do that plenty

        • AmbitiousProcess (they/them)@piefed.social
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          4 hours ago

          Because google only pays Mozilla because of:

          • Maintaining search dominance
          • Preventing anti-monopoly scrutiny

          They don’t want Mozilla to compete in any AI space, because there’s already a ton of competition in the AI space given how much money gets thrown around, so they don’t benefit from anti-monopoly efforts, and there’s so many models that they don’t benefit from search dominance in the AI space. They’d much rather have Mozilla stay a non-AI browser while they get to implement AI features and show shareholders that they’re “the most advanced” of them all, or that “nobody else is doing it like we do”.

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      11 hours ago

      They are, but that’s only for the search engine thing. Unless Google has a seat on the board.

      • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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        9 hours ago

        It’s for the default search, but it also has the side benefit of ensuring a secondary browser with decent market share that’s not Chromium-based they can point to claiming they’re not a monopoly.