> Google can't, for example, demand that Firefox must support some web standard proposal as a condition of being paid
They don't need to demand that, but how would you explain that Mozilla (despite all their talk about privacy and safety in the Internet) never considered putting an ad-blocker in the default install?
The point is: Mozilla needs funding from any of the Big Tech more than any of the Big Tech need Mozilla. They have, for all intents and purposes, sold out to the highest bidder and it doesn't matter who it is.
They don't need to demand that, but how would you explain that Mozilla (despite all their talk about privacy and safety in the Internet) never considered putting an ad-blocker in the default install?
The point is: Mozilla needs funding from any of the Big Tech more than any of the Big Tech need Mozilla. They have, for all intents and purposes, sold out to the highest bidder and it doesn't matter who it is.