this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2023
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Curious what people here think about Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker's statement in Google's anti-monopoly trial-. She claims that Firefox uses Google as its default search because users prefer it, not because of payments from Google.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That can't be a real hairstyle.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

She looks like a cartoon villain.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

As a Firefox user I prefer Kagi. Google is the antithesis of everything Firefox is supposed to stand for. That said, Yahoo has always been horrible and, out of the options that ARE available, Yahoo was easily the absolute worst.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Kagi is quite nice, but I don’t know if it justifies the cost compared to the alternatives (DDG/Brave search)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

IMO DDG, Yahoo and Bing all sucks when it comes to anything complicated. I can see why general public would be put off by this. If they can't figure on how to switch Search engines, then don't really care about any Privacy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's 100% because of the payments. They could use DDg without issues. But to be honest Firefox uses basically rely on Google funding and that in turn allows Google to continue to monopolies search. Deal with the devil but not sure of there is a real alternative.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

DDG doesn't really compare to Google search results. I can hardly find anything I'm looking for when it's pretty much always on the first page of Google

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

DDG sucks when it comes on regional searches or bing in particular, searches related to education is shit if you are still studying.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mozilla sucks these days. It needs new management