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Firefox lost users during “failed” Yahoo search deal, says Mozilla CEO (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by TheBurlapBandit@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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Curious what people here think about Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker's statement in Google's anti-monopoly trial-. She claims that Firefox uses Google as its default search because users prefer it, not because of payments from Google.

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[–] Sabata11792@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I have no idea what's keeping Yahoo in business.

[–] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Acquisitions and spinoffs. The current company is from 2021. Among other things they own AOL, Engadget, and TechCrunch.

[–] n3er0o@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yahoo is pretty big in Japan. They offer a service called Yahoo Auctions Japan that is pretty similar to ebay.

[–] BM_Bourguignon@mastodon.social 2 points 1 year ago

@n3er0o
Yeah, Yahoo! is pretty popular in Japan. I was really surprised when I went to Japan in 2016. Before that, I thought that Yahoo! was dead as a corp. I couldn't be more wrong...
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[–] Zorque@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Momentum, I think. Lots of people who have yahoo email addresses (possibly from when they had integrated ISP emails, do they still have that?) and don't want to switch.