I get hundreds of millions of dollars every year by legitimising surveillance capitalists and enabling them to violate your privacy by default. (I wouldn’t exist without them.) Please trust me on privacy.
Why are you all looking at me like that?
OK, OK, you can stop glaring: I’m Mozilla, y’all love me. 💕
@blacklight447 @aral Imagine Debian taking money from Microsoft to make Microsoft Office the default office suite on Debian while using the money to build a privacy respecting operating system alternative to Windows 10.
This seems unthinkable to most free software people, but Firefox setting Google as the default search engine and using the money to make a privacy respecting alternative to Google Chrome attracts a lot of debate about means and ends.
@blacklight447
Calling this relationship "competition" is an interesting choice of words. Although I completely support the goal of having a diverse choice of browsers, the monopolistic position of Google in this case, is an enabler of that diversity.
@aral