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Re: [LUG] Ubuntu firefox switching to Yahoo! for advertising cash

 

On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:53:06 +0000
"Benjamin M. A'Lee" <bma-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 04:39:31PM +0000, Neil Williams wrote:
> > 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!)
> 
> To be fair, though, isn't the reason that the upstream default is
> Google the result of a deal between Mozilla and Google a few years
> back?

Yes, I mentioned that - along with the probability that iceweasel
doesn't come under that deal due to User-Agent issues.

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