Curious what people here think about Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker’s statement in Google’s anti-monopoly trial-. She claims that Firefox uses Google as its default search because users prefer it, not because of payments from Google.

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      • @[email protected]
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        1 year ago

        Acquisitions and spinoffs. The current company is from 2021. Among other things they own AOL, Engadget, and TechCrunch.

      • @[email protected]
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        81 year ago

        Yahoo is pretty big in Japan. They offer a service called Yahoo Auctions Japan that is pretty similar to ebay.

      • Zorque
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        31 year ago

        Momentum, I think. Lots of people who have yahoo email addresses (possibly from when they had integrated ISP emails, do they still have that?) and don’t want to switch.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 year ago

      I’d rather go to the local library and ask the clerk for a search term

      Sounds kind of relaxing tbh

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        31 year ago

        “Greetings, I would like to know more about this ‘ligma’. Yes I can wait. Yep, thanks, took a ticket.”

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      11 year ago

      But like how hard is it to change the default search, 3 clicks? Then you’re done for life on every computer or phone you ever use, as long as sync is set up.

    • yukichigai
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      11 year ago

      That’s Bing now. Bing back in the day was bad. Not Yahoo bad, but still bad.

      Separate of that though, Yahoo search is just bad so I do believe this. There are other viable options and were a few back in 2017; Yahoo was not one of them.

    • unalivejoy
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      11 year ago

      Even then, changing the default search engine wouldn’t be enough reason to switch browsers. Otherwise I would find a browser that defaults to duck duck go.