• art
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    3 years ago

    If Bing pays them more I say do it. Most power users swap the default anyways and Firefox can use the funding. I can’t see Bing being anymore toxic than Google so it feels like a lateral move.

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      3 years ago

      Problem is. Normies are willing to change to chrome to use Google instead of changing the default search engine.

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        3 years ago

        The outrage over paper straws has shown us that most consumers are not willing to sacrifice ANY personal convenience for any sort of greater good.

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        A big chunk of those users probably don’t care or notice if they use google or bing- and they probably shouldn’t because it probably doesn’t matter. Also I think the number of “normies” still using Firefox is dwindling to nothing anyway.

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        3 years ago

        I think google IS the default search engine in FF…at least last time I updated my settings it was…I had to specifically change that.

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          Yes, Google is the default, what i say is that, as many normies do not change the defaults, they may dumb firefox and switch to chrome just to use google, that is a situation FF has being dealing with for a while.

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      Agreed. In the end I’m going to use neither Google nor Bing, so I don’t really care either way. If it helps Mozilla though, they should go for it.