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Ironically I just made the switch to DDG today with Firefox because Google’s results have become so polluted and irrelevant. I expected Firefox to ship with DD
by jmarbach 7y ago
Ironically I just made the switch to DDG today with Firefox because Google’s results have become so polluted and irrelevant.
I expected Firefox to ship with DDG as the default but alas it did not to my surprise. Why is Google still the default in Firefox?
- osamagirl69 7y agoA significant fraction of Mozilla's funding comes from google paying to make google the default. I am not sure what the dollar value of this agreement was, but it was a sizable fraction of a billion dollars a year last I checked.
- celticmusic 7y agogoogle pays firefox for it
- hatch_q 7y agoGoogle pays Mozilla to have Google as default search. If DDG comes with hefty sum to Mozilla - they'll change it.
- pheug 7y agoBecause Google pays them to do it and essentially to a large extent sponsors Firefox's development. Would you rather have Firefox die due to lack of funding?