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martyb
on Saturday November 22 2014, @05:46AM
from the should-name-a-search-engine:-"Sir Ch" dept.
from the should-name-a-search-engine:-"Sir Ch" dept.
Mozilla announced a change to their strategy for Firefox search partnerships. They are ending the practice of having a single global default search provider. Instead, the default search provider would be determined by location in the following ways:
- United States: Yahoo (new five year deal), who would support the Do Not Track setting in Firefox
- Russia: Yandex
- China: Baidu
Google - together with Bing, DuckDuckGo, and other (depending on location) will continue to be a pre-installed search option. While not a default search provider, Google is not fully out - they will continue to power the Safe Browsing and Geolocation features of Firefox.
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(Score: 2) by richtopia on Saturday November 22 2014, @04:12PM
Google is not fully out - they will continue to power the Safe Browsing and Geolocation features of Firefox.
I'm not terribly familiar with the geolocation or safe browsing features, but why is Google involved in them?
(Score: 3, Informative) by doublerot13 on Saturday November 22 2014, @04:46PM
Google maintains a malicious website list that firefox uses[Safe Browsing] and firefox also sends your public IP to Google for it to return a location/region for that IP.
Google is involved because they provide these 'services' for free to Mozilla.