Baldur Bjarnason on Nostr: Most of the funding for all three major browsers essentially comes from search ...
Most of the funding for all three major browsers essentially comes from search businesses and much of the rest comes from sources with similar dynamics
Those dynamics are changing. Regulators have come to seeing much of the browser landscape as anti-competitive. Companies are largely in the process of demolishing web media as an industry in an effort to replace them with chatbots, LLM answers, and closed social media silos.
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