Mozilla report takes aim at tech giants’ grip on web browsers

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2 thoughts on “Mozilla report takes aim at tech giants’ grip on web browsers

  1. [copy]the company said in response that “Chrome users can directly change their default search settings at any time.”[/copy]
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    It would be interesting for the inverse to be true: browsers have to have the features in question turned “off” when installed and it’s up to the browser folks to convince users to unlock their local copies.

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