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Is It Worth Killing Mozilla to Shave Off Less Than 1% From Google’s Market Share? - Open Web Advocacy
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I think the bigger question is, how did shaving off 1% of Google's market share guarantee the absolute destruction of its single competitor? It's a devilishly sneaky position Google got itself into, creating mutually assured destruction between one of its many tendrils and one of its competitors.
Not like Mozilla did much better, systematically painting itself into a corner while it promised tens of millions of dollars towards AI projects over the past few years...
It didn’t. Mozilla existed long before chrome ever did. It will continue to exist after chrome is gone. Anyone saying otherwise is trying to convince you to keep chrome around because it’s beneficial to them, not because it’s beneficial to Mozilla or humanity.
No, I want mozilla to die and for a better project to rise in its ashes. It might even drive the EU to decide that funding or even running a browser program is worth the money due to sovereignty reasons. At least with Mozilla gone there will be new projects for the developers to work on without being burdened by sticking to the status quo. We might see some actual innovation instead of "Google did this, now we have to too".
Chrome being spun off from Google would be the best thing to happen to the open web.