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Mozilla is also funded nearly half a billion dollars a year by Google, so that makes three that are controlled directly or indirectly by G.

In practice I don't think google exerts much control over Mozilla.

In practice when Mozilla is the only real competition to Chrome and wouldn't exist without Google's funding, it's a conflict of interest regardless.

All it does is make the situation more 'death by a thousand papercuts' than any single standard/extension.

> Mozilla is the only real competition to Chrome

Apple is the only real competition to Chrome. Apple has 18% market share, compared to Mozilla's 3%. https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share

I don't consider a closed source browser on equal footing. Is there a safari equivalent to chromium?

It still has market share no matter how open or closed it is lmao

Not entirely, but sort of.

Safari has an open source browser engine which is also used by gtk and gnome(Gnome Web)

And the only reason Google sponsors them is to pretend there's competition.

Sure, Mozilla just decided "independently" that building in ad-blocking would not be a competitive advantage vs Chrome.

They did independently decide that they'd maintain the extension APIs that allow ublocj origin to work even though Chrome is probably dropping them

And yet they don't make uBlock Origin a pre-installed plugin for 500 million mysterious reasons.

As a long time noscript user, I would be pissed if Mozilla were to install an ad blocker on any of my devices.