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Firefox lost users during “failed” Yahoo search deal, says Mozilla CEO (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by evanuggetpi@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Baker's testimony shows that Mozilla depends so much on its deal with Google for revenue that "the biggest loser of a DOJ win in the Google case would be Mozilla."

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[–] evanuggetpi@lemmy.nz 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (20 children)

Another interesting comment Mozilla's takeaway from the experiment was that Firefox "users made it clear that they look for and want and expect Google.”

[–] PlexSheep@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Im also not convinced. If it were a DDG default it would just make the browser better.

To be clear, I'm not even using DDG as my main search.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

DDG is just Bing on the backend. Why is the megacorp Microsoft preferable to the megacorp Google?

[–] PlexSheep@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

I'd also be fine with Startpage, want, whatever. They have to use something and they can't exactly make some poor selfhosters searing instance the Firefox default

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