Baker’s testimony shows that Mozilla depends so much on its deal with Google for revenue that “the biggest loser of a DOJ win in the Google case would be Mozilla.”

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    Another interesting comment Mozilla’s takeaway from the experiment was that Firefox "users made it clear that they look for and want and expect Google.”

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      that’s not really Mozilla’s fault, user’s are too locked into Google and that’s ultimately Google’s fault.

      Although I don’t like at all that Mozilla is funded by Google and testified in their favor.

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        I saw it more as testifying about why they did what they did

        Ultimately the message is still ‘we had to use Google to survive, they have that much control over the space’

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      I’m surpsied (but obviously shouldn’t be) that that many potential users would instantly bounce off Firefox instead of changing the default search engine.

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        Honestly, the association with Yahoo just makes the platform look like a joke. Like, the first time you do a search and it pops up as Yahoo your first instinct is thinking you’re using the wrong thing.

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      It’s not really that surprising that the average user wants the most popular search engine instead of yahoo (of all things) baked in, whatever your views on Google.

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      Im also not convinced. If it were a DDG default it would just make the browser better.

      To be clear, I’m not even using DDG as my main search.

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          I was under the impression that DDG is pretty private and while underlying search is Bing, bing can’t track the searches to individuals