The Ledger, every show
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Eich: Google Chrome Changed in 2018 to Auto-Sign In Users for Ad Tracking
“In 2018 September, Google said, gosh darn it, people aren't signing into the browser enough. We're going to just do it whenever you sign in to Gmail or YouTube in a tab. We'll just sign you in across all the tabs and we'll track you.”
Eich: Brave pays users 70% of ad revenue via Basic Attention Token
“It also involves something we talked about from the beginning and we prototyped in Bitcoin, and that's the basic attention token system for users who choose to participating in Private ads that are anonymous, but that pay them 70% of the revenue and that let t…”
Eich: Apple Safari beat Firefox on privacy by blocking third-party cookies
“The very first Safari had private windows. It had a third party cookie blocker. Neither of these things were in Firefox at the time. Private windows came in quickly. We never shipped a third party cookie blocker in my time there.”
Eich: DuckDuckGo's keyword search is pretty much still powered by Bing
“DuckDuckGo always had a more private sort of search front end on Bing. It's pretty much Bing still for the keyword search.”
Eich: Every Mozilla executive believed Google would eventually kill them
“I also at Mozilla thought, we're going to get killed by Google. I think every executive thought this at Mozilla.”
Eich: Google only pays browsers for default search status
“Google only pays for default because they're king of the hill and they figure they'll get the traffic anyway.”
Eich: US will not ban crypto due to wealthy family office adoption
“Crypto gets banned in the US or something like that. Don't think it's going to happen. One of the reasons is because I do see too many rich people partaking through their family offices and so on.”
Eich: Netscape's 1995 IPO broke precedent by listing unprofitably on speculation
“In the eighties, SGI had to have three profitable quarters before it could IPO, whereas Netscape just went on forward speculation and forward multiples, and it was not profitable.”
Eich: Mozilla created the first browser extension ecosystem before Chrome
“That was the first browser extension ecosystem way ahead of Chrome's.”
Eich: MicroUnity Made a Fortune Suing IBM, Qualcomm, and Broadcom
“MicroUnity, you probably haven't heard of, but it's got a lot of patents, and it's successfully litigated them from 20 years ago to maybe 10 years ago. I forget when they ran out of steam. I think it, Just made a ton of money off suing everybody. IBM, Motorola…”
Eich: Microsoft was convicted for threatening Compaq over Netscape bundling
“They had the Windows Monopoly, but what they did in tying the browser to it and threatening Compaq with revocation of the Windows license if Compact Shift Netscape as the default browser was illegal, and they got convicted for it.”
Eich: AOL gave $2M over two years to spin out Mozilla
“Ted did the right thing and gave us two million over two years to spin out the Mozilla project.”