Forcing Google to stop paying Mozilla to be default search engine would surely be terrible for Mozilla, right? That's the vast majority of their income.
Win Win imo.
Business running shit needs to stop.
The comments on that are full of people jumping ship, as is to be expected.
Without firefox to point at as an example of how they are not anticompetitive, google is in for an even worse time wrt anti-trust.
And now that firefox won't have Google's money they will need to stand on their own again.
Firefox got markedly worse every year since they started taking Google's money.
Maybe Mozilla shouldn't have wasted so much money on metaverse, AI, chat, social features, etc.
Maybe they could have doubled down on Rust, WASM, the browser, and become a developer tooling vendor that engineers loved.
MDN, Mozdev, Servo, Rustls (not Mozilla, but could have been incubated), and so many other awesome things could have had so much potential if simply thought through, cared about, and coordinated.
The future of everything is making the web first class on mobile. Regulation was always going to catch up and force Apple and Google's hands. Rust, WASM, and Servo could have been the basis of that.