Comment by safety1st
1 year ago
Well, um, er.
As a matter of fact the antitrust enforcers just won their case against Google.
They are in the remedy phase now. Figuring out what Google's punishment is going to be.
Google no longer being allowed to pay Firefox for its default search placement is most certainly in play as part of the possible remedies.
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/boom-judge-rules-google-i...
If you follow the money the idea that Google would sabotage Firefox doesn't make a lot of sense.
It's more likely that Google kept Firefox on life support so they could plausibly deny that they had a browser monopoly. Firefox blew that by mismanaging its market share into oblivion though.
AFAIU that case is about Google's search engine monopoly, not about their browser engine monopoly, so I'm not sure how it's relevant.
(Except that it might dry up Firefox's funding if Google won't pay Mozilla to be the default browser engine anymore...)