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ninjin
on July 16, 2024
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For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by...
Come now, let us be realistic,
no one
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nothing
funds browser development other than advertisement:
https://ladybird.org/#sponsors
latexr
on July 16, 2024
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That is provably false. Safari isn’t funded by advertising, neither is Orion, or LibreWolf, or any number of other smaller open-source browsers.
mccr8
on July 16, 2024
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According to news stories, Apple received $20 billion dollars in 2022 from Google to make Google the default search in Safari.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/2/24147007/google-paid-apple...
latexr
on July 16, 2024
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Which is easy money that Apple uses for the company as a whole. They don’t make Safari
because
of Google’s money nor is it likely they would stop developing it if that money was no longer paid.
rascul
on July 16, 2024
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None of those appear to be advertising companies.
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