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.
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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.