You’re assuming that this will kill FF instantly instead of them finding new ways to fund themselves. Not saying the situation is good, but it’s not that bad.
We know how it will impact Firefox. They will be deeply concerned with WEI and extremely opposing it, but will implement it anyway because they are forced to do it.
With most competing browsers and the content industry embracing the W3C EMEWEI specification, Mozilla has little choice but to implement EMEWEI as well so our users can continue to access all content they want to enjoy.
As long as this doesn’t impact Firefox, I don’t care…
The issue beyond them trying to change chromium to not have it but they are trying to make it so part of websites have the “security” built in as well
The problem is they have the lion’s share of users, so they can force websites to adhere to their policies and those sites will stop working in FF.
Google is the source of most of the funding to Firefox. Can go 100 to 0 anytime basically
You’re assuming that this will kill FF instantly instead of them finding new ways to fund themselves. Not saying the situation is good, but it’s not that bad.
Don’t they pay for firefox just so they don’t get hit with antitrusts?
I feel like that might trigger an anti-trust lawsuit somewhere.
We know how it will impact Firefox. They will be deeply concerned with WEI and extremely opposing it, but will implement it anyway because they are forced to do it.
It’s going to go exactly like this. Again.
And that is almost a direct quote.
It will impact Firefox.
Well, they’re trying to make it impact FF…