Remove Yahoo search engine from Firefox quicksearch (it spies on users)
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| firefox (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: firefox
Mozilla Firefox comes with search engines by default.
In Google, when you search for something, and it lists the links it find, and you click on the links, you get directly to the links.
In Yahoo, when you search for something, and it lists the links it finds, when you click on the links, it redirects you to them through themself, hence spying on their users.
Example, instead of linking directly to http://
* http://
Yahoo has been criticized for their adware and spyware;
* http://
They also helped the Chinese government by giving up data, resulting in the imprisonment of Chinese political dissidents.
Shi Tao, a journalist working for a Chinese newspaper, was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
* http://
We should keep Google, Wikipedia and Creative Commons. Google is our strong ally.
However, Yahoo and eBay never did shit for us, why should we help them out?
| Mathieu Marquer (slasher-fun) wrote | #1 |
| Fred (eldmannen+launchpad) wrote | #2 |
| Alexander Sack (asac) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in firefox: | |
| status: | New → Won't Fix |
In Google, when you search for something, and it lists the links it find, and you click on the links, you get directly to the links.
--> False. Search for linux.com on Google, and just put the mouse pointer on the link : You'll see that it points to www.linux.com . Now, just make a right click on the link (the same thing appears with a left click, but you don't have enough time to see it) : the link is now something like http://