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Mozilla’s only reason of existence right now is so that Google can skirt an antitrust case.
Edit: to be clear, that in itself makes it a bad actor.
I don't subscribe to this theory.
They don't need to keep firefox on life support to avoid an antitrust case. A chromium fork could serve the same purpose.
That might be true, but the fact that the competitor is using their engine as base could be used against them. It also doesn’t change the fact that they have Mozilla wrapped around their finger.
Not really.
There's not really any evidence of that. Sure Mozilla has done some stupid things, and they're not the champions of internet privacy we would like them to be, but it's really just hyperbole to say they're wrapped around google's finger.
I guess we just disagree what kind of influence having your company derive 90% of its income from a competitor can have.