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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

So it is on firefox as well . . ? And also with Edge, for those poor bastards.

Why not just force them to pick a different default? Or something meaningful like splitting them out of Alphabet entirely? Or stop sucking? Okay, well that last one may be hard to administrate.

[–] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It is on FF and Edge because Google pays them a ton of money. Every person who chooses Chrome instead of FF is more money for Google because they don't need to pay themselves to make Google the default.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

A fair point, though "a ton of money" is essentially 1% of their net profits for the year. Selling Chrome to someone who gets another .5% is not going to do anything at all.