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kalleboo on Feb 4, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Over the edge: The use of design tactics to underm...

Once Chrome is allowed on iOS, then Firefox is dead. When they're no longer forced to test in a second browser by management, all the web devs will just check for a recent Chrome user agent and if it's not there they just say "install chrome to use this site", and we're back in the IE days. And then Google can stop paying Mozilla for search field defaults and then all of Mozilla's income is gone.

doix on Feb 4, 2024 [–]

I've seen that sentiment a lot, I don't buy it. Google pays for Firefox so they can claim they are not a monopoly.

I'm hopeful that if people have a choice on iOS, then Apple would invest more on their browser.

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