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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

The article’s whole argument sounds like one of the weakest and most common corporate speak nonsense arguments that come up whenever there is a monopoly. It’s almost an admission of being a monopoly.

That said, the “browsers providing Google search by default money” is probably the economic reason why we still have a Firefox web browser (the only real, fully functioning alternative to the webkit/blink browsers like Chrome). For a long time, it was a significant source of their income.

Also, the alternatives to Google search need to step up their game. As a tech worker, Bing sucks for results. Yahoo does too since it gets results from Bing. DuckDuckGo isn’t bad. Anyone know better alternatives?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ecosia is also decent, respects privacy, and uses proceeds to plant trees

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Never heard of that. I will try it.

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