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Daniel Ehrenberg
@littledan.dev

If there is a sale of Chrome, the buyer should be required to spend at least 25% of their revenue on the core browser engine and standards development. Browsers are enormously profitable, but a new owner might try to run things for the short term.

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Wes
@notwes.bsky.social

I do not know enough to take a coherent opinion here, but if they are enormously profitable then why do we have so few? Or is it just that it has been profitable for Google? I would love to read a good history with details that run up to the present.

Daniel Ehrenberg
@littledan.dev

Firefox has long been profitable enough to have its horrible leadership siphon off money for all these non-browser efforts, like this AI stuff and acquisitions like Pocket.

Daniel Ehrenberg
@littledan.dev

Well, that’s what the DoJ-proposed technical committee is for: to ensure that the terms of the settlement are followed. I’d have them follow the buyer as well and make sure they are working towards the health of the open web.