General Discussion • Re: Linux has over 6% of the desktop market

Well, I think it's more that Google wants to maintain their monopoly, and they benefit from increased ad revenue if people can't block ads because they use Chrome, no big conspiracy is required to explain that one. Speaking of ad-blockers, I think Firefox may be shooting themselves in the foot with that built-in adblocker thing, advertisers may push for websites to drop Firefox support because of that.

When you mention the facts side by side like that, it suggests to me the speculation that Firefox’s inbuilt advert-blocker is meant to anticipate any future shift to Manifest 3. We are all here because we learnt a decade ago what Mozilla thinks about disobeying Mother Google’s instructions about browser extensions, but Google still needs Mozilla alive, if just barely, to maintain enough of an illusion of choice to avoid too much legal scrutiny.