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these showed up after Jul 21 per GitHub "contribution activity" but are retroactively dated to 13 - they were probably private before that.

We may not see that full implementation is already worked on.

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[–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now all we can do is convince as many people as we can to use firefox instead of putting up with this bullshit.

[–] AvailableFill74@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You mean the nonprofit company that is dependent completely on a contract with google to stay solvent? Ya, firefox will definitely never be pressured by google... Bruh

[–] aba11@birdon.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] AvailableFill74@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-05-05/why-google-keeps-paying-mozilla-s-firefox-even-as-chrome-dominates

“One thing Mozilla does have going for it is a lot of money—more than $1 billion in cash reserves, according to its latest financial statement. The primary source of this capital is Google, which pays Mozilla to be the default search engine on the Firefox home page. Those payments, which started in 2005, have been increasing—up 50% over the past decade, to more than $450 million, even as the total number of Firefox users has plummeted. In 2021 these payments accounted for 83% of Mozilla’s revenue.”

https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2021/mozilla-fdn-2021-fs-final-1010.pdf

[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Well color me surprised.

[–] Kissaki@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

Where's the "in secret" part?

You mean because what they proof-of-concepted or drafted privately wasn't publicly visible 8 days earlier?

I don't get it.

add to that - just from https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/1051714

https://github.com/chromium/chromium/commit/6f47a22906b2899412e79a2727355efa9cc8f5bd

Please comment any information under this post and create cross-links at any possible posts - to create comprehensible information source.

[–] mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

Gotta love the open source licences (when we have libre licences). At least Google stand as a good example on why open source licences are not a good option in comparison to free ones (we have BSD vs AT&T too as an example).