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Nah, Vivaldi still has a much better anti-ai stance. Runs faster and still loads uBlock. This will likely change soon, but I'm not rushing to Firefox until I need to. Firefox is funded by Google anyway.
Vivaldi is:
Addons on google too
That sounds like Firefox only exists because Google/Alphabet pays for it.
In reality Firefox/Mozilla have made a deal to make Google the default search engine on the default home page.
That would be a pretty stupid business decision to not have free money, what are they gonna do? Have Bing as the default search engine?
Firefox does only exist because Google pays for it. Google is Mozilla's single greatest financial contributor. They're essentially keeping a competitor on life support to avoid breaching antitrust laws. Essentially, the argument is that as long as Firefox exists, Google isn't a monopoly.
However, at any time, Google could simply stop paying, and Firefox would quickly die. Laws change.
Google, Facebook, Microsoft are the biggest donors.
Firefox could develop (or pay for someone else to develop) a search engine that doesn't require google or bing's search indexes.