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Comment by birdsongs

7 hours ago

I get the analogy but it's a false one. Google covers about 90% of Mozilla's funding. Firefox only survives because of Google, and that's so they don't hit antitrust problems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation#Financing

> Firefox only survives because of Google, and that's so they don't hit antitrust problems.

Yes, that is what I meant. They should be hesitant to lockdown completely and (grudgingly even) allow alternative options and/or workarounds due to legal concerns like anti-trust.

Firefox was existing before Chrome, but in this case we either need a different OS or need an android based option like Graphene/3rd party stores gain enough marketshare to trigger anti-competitive laws.