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Judging by the replies and down votes, yes we have.

I think you’re missing the point here. You’re claiming Google only pays Mozilla to have a competitor, yet they also pay apple even more money for the same thing in an area they’re just competing.

The point is that there is competition in the default browser search space, it’s just that Google pays more than anyone else.

If Google stopped paying Mozilla tomorrow, someone else would pay them for the same default search engine spot. It might not be as much, but it would still be a significant amount.

A few years ago it was Yahoo that footed the bill.

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As much as I’m happy to criticise Mozilla and its leadership, this graph is misleading.

Firefox is not the only thing Mozilla does, not should the market share of the browser be the sole metric the leadership is measured by.

Overlay the revenue and profit (or whatever revenue minus expenses is called for a nonprofit), then decide if the CEO is overpaid.

Google pays to keep it’s monopoly on search

Agreed.

Google pays literally tens of billions to make sure they’re the default search engine across everything - including the likes of iOS.

Why is it that when Google pays Apple hundreds of millions of dollars, it’s because they’re enforcing their search monopoly, but when they pay Mozilla a fraction of that, it’s because Mozilla would have no way of staying afloat otherwise?

Why is Google paying apple so much if nobody else could afford it?

Make it make sense.

Yes they contributed a lot to web standards, bit they didn’t contribute to actual user experience which is why people install a web browser in the first place.

Mozilla consistently gets complacent.

I use teams on Firefox and haven’t encountered any issues. Admittedly I only use it occasionally, as I do mainly use the desktop app.

Despite my above rant, I still use Firefox as my primary browser. The web works absolutely fine on it. I think I’ve encountered one site that required chrome to work correctly in the last year and that’s a huge improvement over where we were back in the early 2000’s with IE.

No, there’s other reasons why people don’t switch, compatibility is not the issue.

Browsers are profitable, Mozilla only exists because of the money the browser brings in.

Yes, it’s true that the money is currently coming from Google but only because Google is willing to pay more than other search providers. If Google stopped paying, someone else would pay instead.

To put it another way, Google isn’t forking out millions to Mozilla out of the goodness of its heart

EDIT: to everyone down voting this, please explain to me why Google also pays Apple an obscene amount of money to be the default search engine on iOS if there’s no competition in this space?

Stagnation is Mozilla’s MO. Fuck, go look at Thunderbird and be transported back to the 90’s.

Even Microsoft is updating outlook - fucking outlook is innovating, Outlook being the cancer on email that’s held it back for decades, is being updated.

Mozilla has been a sinking ship for decades now.

There’s a reason Chrome was able to steal the alt browser market from Mozilla at a time when even laymen understood that IE was awful - Mozilla stopped innovating the second they were winning. They had tabs! What more could you want?

Chrome came along at a time when browser performance wasn’t a focus, when JavaScript meant websites were slow, and said “fuck that, let’s make it fast”. Say what you will about Chrome or JS, Google was on to something and the modern web today is 95% thanks to Chrome pushing things forward.

Everyone jumped to Chrome and Mozilla fucked around for literally years before they got the memo that actually browser performance matters. They were once the best browser tools on the market until once again Chrome pushed the envelope, and once again developers switched while Mozilla sat back and did nothing.

Mozilla meandered back and forth, releasing shitty products nobody wanted (like pocket and send) instead of focusing on the most important thing: the browser.

Yet they’re somehow still here, hobbling along, doing fuck knows what instead of making a better browser and innovating to beat Chrome.

The £ key on GB keyboards is shift+3.

Ray tracing actually will directly change the way games are made. A lot of time is spent by artists placing light sources and baking light maps to realistically light scenery - with ray tracing, you get that realism “for free”.

DF did a really interesting video on the purely path traced version of Metro: Exodus and as part of that, the artists talked about how much easier and faster it was to build that version.

I think you just need to look at the PS5 Pro as proof that more GPU power doesn’t translate linearly to better picture quality.

The PS5 Pro has a 67% beefier GPU than the standard PS5 - with a price to match - yet can anyone say the end result is 67% better? Is it even 10% better?

We’ve been hitting diminishing returns on raw rasterising for years now, a different approach is definitely needed.

Yup after first seeing this video we switched to powder - which was harder to find than I expected as everywhere sells tablets these days, but the difference was stark. My dishwasher doesn’t even have a prewash compartment but I just sprinkle some powder in the door chamber and that works well enough.

Since this I rarely have any issues with dirty dishes. The only problem I have is occasionally glasses will get covered with baked on dirt particulate, but I’m assuming that’s just my dishwasher being crap (I always clear out the filter between washes).

Conservatives will latch on to the Democratic donations and use it as "evidence’ that the guy was 100% a democrat through and thought and that democrats are the only ones trying to assassinate their political opposition, I guarantee it.

They did exactly the same thing with the last attempt.

This is the way to do it - actual valid certs, with actual working TLS.

OP’s issue is they don’t understand how SSL works and fighting Firefox, which is actually trying to protect them and steer they e in the right direction.

I’m devastated that they’re not working on a sequel at all, it was such a fun and refreshing game.

No, the adverts are the product.

This whole notion that nothing can be free needs to get in the bin.

Linux is free. Who’s selling the user data for that?

Lemmy is free, who’s the product there?

Yes, Facebook/Meta is a shady fucking company and they are indeed selling your data on top of the ads they sell, but don’t lump everything free into the same bucket.

I love docker images, hate docker Inc.