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Had it saved on my hard drive for years and recently re-discovered it. Seems to be from 2011 (!!)

Google is getting worse by the year, but it seems even back then some people were already seeing where things were going.

(Credits to the original author whoever it might be)

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[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is this through donations, or through google search default?

[–] atomWood@lemm.ee 50 points 2 years ago (2 children)

From my understanding, this is from setting Google as the default search engine.

Honestly, I don’t blame them for taking it. The Mozilla corporation has done a lot of good for the modern internet.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 11 points 2 years ago

Agreed. It's a shit system that needs reform or we all die, but for not it's all about lesser evils

I worry about many of Firefox's decisions (they've been going off script worryingly frequently), but funding the org with this one concession seems acceptable to me

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

they're also using Google location services instead of Mozilla ones by default (this only matters if you have disabled native os geolocation service)

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's for the search engine, correct.

Which is meaningless as most Firefox users tend to switch to alternatives like duckduckgo