DuckDuckGo browser hijacks have become one of the more common PUPs out there, often bundled with freeware. DDG has also been criticized as even worse than Google when it comes to allowing scam sites to buy ad results, but your mileage may vary.
Its a race to the bottom! Chrome has taken to changing my window environment to suit itself (no, chrome, if I want you on top of other windows, I'll fucking put you there)
Let's clear up some FUD here - 1. Mozilla is switching the default to the only search provider willing to support DoNotTrack - this is a good thing, and absolutely on-mission for them. 2. They're not switching it to the current Yahoo, they are working with Yahoo to build a new search made just for Mozilla users. 3. Marissa Mayer has been pivoting Yahoo pretty impressively, it's not the same company that it was 5 or 10 years ago. 4. Google is also not the company that it used to be 5 or 10 years ago. Their bullshit with HTML Video was directly antiethical to Mozilla's mission. 5. There's a slim glimmer of hope here that Yahoo might make a FirefoxOS phone to compete with Android and Amazon and iTunes, and that couldn't possibly hurt the current clusterfuck that is the mobile OS space right now.
There's a reason I resorted to memespek rather than, y'know, complaining with real words the way I did the several recent times Mozilla shit in my cornflakes. This is not as bad, it's just... Yahoo. They're not a real company! They're the joke company that partnered with Rogers to try to somehow make Rogers worse, and succeeded!
It's the name recognition, because "Amiga in clown shoes" is basically the Yahoo brand.
Google Return on average equity 12.36% (Most recent quarterly) Rogers Return on average equity 25.68% (Most recent quarterly) Yahoo! Return on average equity 109.99% (Most recent quarterly)
I agree that Yahoo! is still a punchline, and so is Rogers, but Yahoo has a lot of potential right now.
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Date: 2014-11-20 06:26 pm (UTC)(It doesn't bother me - I'll just switch back to Google and carry on as before.)
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Date: 2014-11-20 06:32 pm (UTC)It wouldn't matter if Google was as evil as Facebook - you switch away, sure. But not to Yahoo.
Date: 2014-11-20 06:34 pm (UTC)I might try it. Just to feel dirty.
Huh. Turns out it's powered by Bing. Which actually gives reasonably decent results.
Not that I'm switching.
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Date: 2014-11-20 06:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-11-20 06:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-11-20 07:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-11-20 07:19 pm (UTC)DuckDuckGo - the search engine that operates like Malware.
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Date: 2014-11-20 07:30 pm (UTC)Now that's an interesting statement.
Care to elaborate on what you mean?
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Date: 2014-11-20 09:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-11-20 11:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-11-20 08:02 pm (UTC)What is this, satire?
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Date: 2014-11-20 10:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-11-20 11:37 pm (UTC)1. Mozilla is switching the default to the only search provider willing to support DoNotTrack - this is a good thing, and absolutely on-mission for them.
2. They're not switching it to the current Yahoo, they are working with Yahoo to build a new search made just for Mozilla users.
3. Marissa Mayer has been pivoting Yahoo pretty impressively, it's not the same company that it was 5 or 10 years ago.
4. Google is also not the company that it used to be 5 or 10 years ago. Their bullshit with HTML Video was directly antiethical to Mozilla's mission.
5. There's a slim glimmer of hope here that Yahoo might make a FirefoxOS phone to compete with Android and Amazon and iTunes, and that couldn't possibly hurt the current clusterfuck that is the mobile OS space right now.
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Date: 2014-11-20 11:48 pm (UTC)It's the name recognition, because "Amiga in clown shoes" is basically the Yahoo brand.
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Date: 2014-11-20 11:57 pm (UTC)Rogers Return on average equity 25.68% (Most recent quarterly)
Yahoo! Return on average equity 109.99% (Most recent quarterly)
I agree that Yahoo! is still a punchline, and so is Rogers, but Yahoo has a lot of potential right now.
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Date: 2014-11-21 12:07 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-11-21 12:09 am (UTC)