One executive revealed the number, and it’s more than the GDP of Haiti.
Yet, in a redacted copy of an internal email chain released on Friday, Jim Kolotouros, the vice president of Android Platform Partnerships, wrote: “Chrome exists to serve Google search, and if it cannot do that because it is regulated to be set by the user, the value of users using Chrome goes to almost zero (for me).”
So Chrome’s whole point is bringing users to Google Search… and Google Search’s whole point is Google Ads. I’m Glad I use Firefox.
Cut the snake by the head.
Problem solved.
In the last update of firefox google was redefaulted as search engine. Wonder if such roll out costs extra?
Was it anything else before?
Dunno about “the last update” or the current state in each region but as far as I know the default search engine in FireFox has varied over the years and has always depended what country you’re in.
Baidu, Yandex and Yahoo are / have been the default in some countries. They made Bing the default for “1%” of users in a bunch of major countries recently to test the waters (and didn’t take it further than that).
Google blocks traffic from Chinese IP addresses as a protest against censorship there, so nobody has Google as the default in that country.
I dont know if the last update was any bigger update, but at least several updates before my engine was not changed.
I have no damn idea as I see Firefox as a Platform.
And what does that make Android’s whole point? 😉
5.25 billion smartphone users, so they are paying about $5 per user. If you switch the default from Google, you are taking $5 from them!
TBH, 26.3 billion dollars are just a drop in the bucket for Google. That bucket of course filled with the money they got with industrial scale spying, cross-site tracking, denial of control, forced ads, destruction of competition, among countless dirty tricks they play on regular netizens.
They made a $40b profit last year. More than half their profits is a “drop in the bucket”?!
I actually use Bing so that I get Microsoft Rewards points, meaning I gain money by not using Google.
But I understand privacy homies going DuckDuckGo or something else.
The report, shared with The Register, estimates that Google’s payout accounts for 14% to 16% of Apple’s annual operating profits [in 2021].
What?!? That’s huge
Imagine if they put a fraction of that money into…I donno…actually making their search algorithmically competitive.
Who needs competition when you’re a monopoly on the whole internet lmao.
Right? My takeaway from this is that it was cheaper for them to do this than it was to make a good search engine.
For anyone who doesn’t click the link, Google paid $26.3 billion.
They played the game of thrones well
