Web Browser History

Hiving off Chrome or Android would not fix this problem, as long as Google were still allowed to pay their eventual owners to be the default search engine. So the court should target default arrangements directly. It could limit Google to being able to pay to be one of a range of choices of search engine, a fix that European regulators have already put in place. Absent the fat cheque Google pays to be the default, Apple and other deep-pocketed tech firms might focus on building search engines of their own.

The trial revealed that it costs an estimated $20bn to build a search engine, plus $3bn-4bn per year in annual research and development.

21th century

  • Andreas Kling builds Ladybird.
  • Servo.
  • Andrew Kelly is infuriated and others (1, 2) with Mozilla becoming an ad company.
    • Mozilla's argument that ads are the only way to make money while keeping the content free and open. So by using privacy-preserving technology you get best of both worlds.

  • If you can't imagine how the web could exist without ads, you need to work on your imagination.

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