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So this means Mozilla's insanely bad clause (for Yahoo) [1] kicks in? 1. http://www.recode.net/2016/7/7/12116296/marissa-mayer-deal-mozilla-yahoo-payment http:

• rch 10y ago
  I'd bet that Mozilla continues to work with Yahoo/Verizon.
  • dao- 10y ago
    It will be interesting to see what the deal will mean for the privacy policy of Yahoo search, and whether that will be acceptable for Mozilla.
    • intopieces 10y ago
      I'll do more research on my own, but for the benefit of others reading, would you elaborate on this? Yahoo works with Duck Duck Go, so their privacy policy was good enough for them, it would seem.
      • dredmorbius 10y ago
        Factually true comment being downvoted (as I write this). DDG is itself a privacy proxy for search. Yahoo's privacy policy doesn't much matter if DDG are proxying (and anonymising) search requests. The substance of search results would matter. (Incidentally, since the switch, and I believe DDG were using Bing principally earlier, quality seems down somewhat.)
  • rblatz 10y ago
    Or they could switch back to google or bing and grab nearly an extra billion dollars between now and 2019. Seems like a no brainier to Mozilla.
    • kevin_thibedeau 10y ago
      Would be funny if they switched to Bing since that is what Yahoo search is now any way.
    • Sylos 10y ago
      Not quite as much of a no-brainer, if you consider that Yahoo! represents about a third of the competition for the place as default search engine in Firefox. If they can retain this competitor, they might benefit from it more than by cashing in on that billion.