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Note: Original report by Bloomberg, article by Reuters proxied by Neuters to bypass paywall.

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[โ€“] tomatoely@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Wouldn't it put Firefox on a pickle? Say Chrome gets bought out of Google's hands, would they still bother to pay half a billion to Firefox to stay as the default search engine? Could Firefox survive being financially independent?

[โ€“] WildPalmTree@lemmy.world 1 points 46 minutes ago

I'd assume they would be willing to pay even more.