Lol if Google really wanted to kill FF they would just stop paying them half a billion a year.

This is true, I am generalizing based on results I have confirmed. But I have no reason to think it might be otherwise for other fields

I do not know where you got that idea. I am asking for more thinking regarding the technology.

I’m not arguing over ethics. There are lots of people here who do have problems with its capabilities

I suppose that’s true. And also deranged to do it on purpose

Ok but that is actually a nonsensical statement. In no case will using threads and recursion reduce cpu usage

Google overpays quite a bit so they have a viable competitor to point to for chrome. If the payment tracked FF’s usage numbers it would be way lower now. It makes no financial sense for any other search engine to pay that much.

That’s assuming they could even afford it. Most can’t

The correct solution would have been for Mozilla to pursue alternative income a long time ago. Owning a browser gives you a lot of leverage. Instead they made a half-hearted attempt a few years back and half the products failed. I don’t know why FF fans were so comfortable holding them as the savior of the web when they were entirely funded by Google.

And now… well I don’t see a way forward either. Maybe it should just die then.

True but he doesn’t need to. It’s the door in face technique

Can learn

Technical talk is always half english anyway

That should come with reputational consequences - not just for the journalist, but also for the platform that amplified their speculation

This is already true though? At least for respectable sources.

Anyway reputation is socially enforced. You can’t make a law about it

Where does the “learn more” go to?

Yeah lol, and it’s trivial to show

That’s fundamentally impossible. There’s always some baseline you trust that decides what is true

how the hell are they still in business lmao

ok haha, I guessed something like that must’ve happened

wow that’s… quite a list. Are you sure you need them all? What are you using like redis, yt-dlp or spotifyapi, ytmusicapi for??

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<redacted>\countryguess\countryguess.py", line 3, in <module>
    from art import *
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'art'

you might want to add a requirements.txt

Because it hasn’t been needed. Alternatives like vivaldi and brave do make some changes to allow you to disable Google services. Ungoogled chromium is also a thing.

For all the hate, Google has mostly done fine beyond a few boneheaded decisions.

They’re already dying. This would be throwing themselves in the grave. People aren’t used to paying for browsers