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1. mangeurdenuage (mangeurdenuage@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 24-Jul-2023 19:08:03 JST mangeurdenuage
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   • of nothing (apropos@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 24-Jul-2023 19:08:03 JST of nothing

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     @mangeurdenuage I get it now.
     Google isn't paying Mozilla for search, not really: Google is paying Mozilla to never manage to solve the very easy problem of having a trustworthy repository of useful browser extensions.
     As long as extension authors can sell out and the new owners quietly inject malware and for most people to not realize anything, then the problem remains unsolved and the need remains to cripple extensions.
     
     Google did the same thing with Android after all. In the early days root was ubiquitous and useful and there were OS-level adblocks. But then, gosh darnit, Google just somehow couldn't keep from hosting lots of background-image apps that stole people's data! They *had* to cripple Android. There was no other solution to all this malware on Google's own store!