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Ubuntu! is! on! the! prowl! for! advertising! cash! from! Yahoo!
(following an ElReg {http://www.theregister.co.uk/} habit of putting !
at the end of every word of a headline involving Yahoo. Annoying!
isn't! it!)
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2010-January/030065.html
"Lucid changes to Firefox default search provider
... changing the default search provider in Firefox to Yahoo!"
It's two clicks to revert to Google or choose another including
Wikipedia, Amazon or answers.com (so, in reality for a general search
engine, the only option other than Yahoo! is Google).
(If you re-install in order to upgrade your Ubuntu, you'll have to do
those two clicks again - for each user.)
Debian will not be doing this in iceweasel, whether Mint and other
derivatives will revert to Google is unknown. I think we all know the
power of defaults - if the effect didn't exist, this change wouldn't
have even been considered by any of the parties involved. (Mozilla has a
deal with Google; Ubuntu now has a deal with Yahoo! but as Debian has
iceweasel instead of firefox, the Mozilla deal is not activated.)
"Forcing the user to choose for [sic] something because the company gave
money for that is totally again [sic] this to me."
http://blog.rastageeks.org/spip.php?article54
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