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Browser vendors are free to choose their own default search engines and get paid for it just like how Brave search is the default search on brave private

This tweet thread is unnecessarily confusing the two. How does restricting browser engine to webkit decide what browser engines they use?

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Short answer: No market share = no search engine revenue

By: 1. Eliminating browsers ability to differentiate itself 2. Forcing additional costs on the browser vendors to have to develop a second browser specifically for iOS 3. By reserving functionality exclusively for Safari 4. By eroding third party browsers market share by self-preferencing Safari (default install, couldn't set another default browser until recently etc etc)

Ah you mean unlike Google which pushed its browser through its dominant search, dominant mail, dominant video hosting etc. Which sabotaged Firefox. Which still conveniently "forgets" user choice of browsers in its apps and defaults to Chrome?

Yes, exactly like Google.

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