• kuhli@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      21 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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          13 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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            7 hours ago

            There’s no real way Mozilla could compete. Google has nothing to fear on that front like the browser front. It’s far more likely Mozilla’s ultimate intention. Is to integrate Gemini or similar further into the browser than they already have. Mozilla is years late to the circle jerk, and everyone else has partnered up.

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      21 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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        19 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.