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> Remember when we all switched from Firefox to Chrome?

I remember the hype, but I never switched. Firefox was always good enough for me. And really, Firefox overtook Chrome in performance a while ago already. And naturally Mozilla's manifesto is way better to support than Eric Schmidt's "you don't need privacy if you have nothing to hide" idea.



Firefox gets nearly $1mn/day from Google...they're using your browsing history to target new tab page ads to you...they're not a good choice if you care about privacy. They have, though, pressured Yahoo to do some good stuff -- they have zero leverage over google, in fact google has tons of leverage over them. Try the Epic Privacy Browser if you care about privacy!


Mozilla no longer gets $1mn/day from Google. The new default search engine is Yahoo for US users. https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/11/19/promoting-choice-an...


As others said, their contract with Google is over - now they use Yahoo (and some others) which you can easily switch to DuckDuckGo if you want. And also you can switch off new tab ads trivially.




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