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> Mozilla is the only independent vendor pushing technology and principles focused on people over profit. That it is the only independent vendor doing so is ca
by eevilspock 12y ago
> Mozilla is the only independent vendor pushing technology and principles focused on people over profit.
That it is the only independent vendor doing so is categorically false.
That it always puts people over profits is questionable. It's relationship with Google and reliance on ad revenue runs counter to those principles. Perhaps it is doing so as a survival tactic only, but they do compromise on the principle.
- jMyles 12y agoDoes it still have a relationship with Google?
- teod 12y agoI'm not sure if it still has relationships with Google, but it did form a partnership with Yahoo recently [https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2014/11/yahoo-and-mozilla-form-strategic-partnership/ https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2014/11/yahoo-and-mozilla-for...].
- digi_owl 12y agoThey diversified. I Think they provide Yahoo search by default most places, Yandex in Russia, and some other one in China.
- soapdog 12y agoYahoo! is the default for U.S.A. Yandex for Russia, Baidu for China. All the others default to Google. And yes, you can always change the default search engine to your preferred one in the preferences.
- imglorp 12y agoFor a while, the Thunderbird default search engine was pegged to Bing. There was no easy way to change it. A marketer came to the bugzilla to explain they would not fix it for business reasons.
- tinalumfoil 12y agoWhich seems backwards because before Chrome, Google would pay Mozilla pretty large amounts of money [0] just to have their search as an easily-changeable default. [0] http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2398046,00.asp http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2398046,00.asp