“The Firefox browser may not be as independent as previously
thought. Mozilla essentially owns Firefox, and it proved so when it
flexed its muscles last year in forcing Debian to rename its
browser IceWeasel.“However, the open secret in the tech sector is that at the end
of the day, Google calls the shots. As this blog post will explain,
when a pro-user security feature in the browser threatens Google’s
business model, it is the feature that is made to compromise–not
the search engine…”
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