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I feel like they only exist so that google can claim that competition exists.

That's correct. Soon there will be Ladybird, hopefully in a few years a very good competitor to Chrome/Firefox.

The thing I'm worried about with Ladybird is it's core logic is being coded by AI. I don't mind AI in other regions of code but I think core logic should be carefully written. They're also not very organized. Deciding to rewrite the whole codebase from CPP to Swift, then the decision changes to Rust shows uncareful decision making.

We need to be more critical every time Mozilla treats FF as a product to monetize. They should seek funding in the same way that every other charity does.

It's weird because it does on Android. I use Firefox on Android to watch YouTube videos without ads.