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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral 6 Dec 2017

    You’d almost think Mozilla was being paid by Google or something. “For Firefox Quantum … the default search engine is aggressively changed to Google during update, disregarding your previous settings. If you previously installed … StartPage … an install error will appear…”pic.twitter.com/EBnecAyMH0

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      1. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 6 Dec 2017

        Aral Balkan Retweeted Aral Balkan

        Source: https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/199/0/how-do-i-add-startpage-to-firefox-as-a-default-search-engine … #SurveillanceCapitalismhttps://twitter.com/aral/status/938369511954309121 …

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        Aral Balkan @aral
        You’d almost think Mozilla was being paid by Google or something. “For Firefox Quantum … the default search engine is aggressively changed to Google during update, disregarding your previous settings. If you previously installed … StartPage … an install error will appear…” pic.twitter.com/EBnecAyMH0
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      2. Yves Peters‏ @BaldCondensed 6 Dec 2017
        Replying to @aral

        Mine is still set to DuckDuckGo after upgrading to Firefox Quantum? So no aggressive changing to Google.

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 6 Dec 2017
        Replying to @BaldCondensed

        Could that be because @DuckDuckGo is one of the options included in the default list? (Mozilla had to do that after they were shamed by Apple doing it first in Safari even though, you know, Mozilla is all about open and choice and all that and Apple is evil. How odd… 🧐)

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      4. Yves Peters‏ @BaldCondensed 6 Dec 2017
        Replying to @aral @DuckDuckGo

        Hadn’t thought of that. Thanks for the elucidation.

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      5. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 6 Dec 2017
        Replying to @BaldCondensed @DuckDuckGo

        Just a theory. @StartPageSearch should be able to update us on the latest state of this.

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      2. Dan Callahan‏ @callahad 6 Dec 2017
        Replying to @aral

        It's been a few years, but last time I looked into this, if the user had expressed intent by switching engines away from the default, we honored that choice, even if our default changed. If someone (@StartPageSearch?) can give me steps to reproduce, I'll gladly file the bug.

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 6 Dec 2017
        Replying to @callahad @StartPageSearch

        Thanks, Dan, appreciate it. Also, if you could, can you also file a bug about accepting hundreds of millions of dollars from a company (Google) that makes it by tracking and profiling people? That contradicts Mozilla’s stated ethos and should be fixed. #SurveillanceCapitalism

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      4. Dan Callahan‏ @callahad 6 Dec 2017
        Replying to @aral @StartPageSearch

        I'm proud that we're able to take hundreds of millions of dollars of Google's money and turn it toward the cause of a free and open Internet, and I believe we do this in a way that is ethical and consistent with our mission.

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      2. Ana Tudor  🐯‏ @anatudor 6 Dec 2017
        Replying to @aral

        Just checked. I don't see any of this happening.

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 6 Dec 2017
        Replying to @anatudor

        What say ye, @StartPageSearch? Has this been fixed?

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      2. partwave∴‏ @part_ickle 6 Dec 2017
        Replying to @aral

        partwave∴ Retweeted Schneier Blog

        intresting choice for new browser name https://twitter.com/schneierblog/status/443816702304735232 … 😅🤐

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        Schneier Blog @schneierblog
        New Information on the NSA's QUANTUM Program: There's a new (overly breathless) article on the NSA's QUANTUM p... http://bit.ly/1qwFl3L 
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      3. partwave∴‏ @part_ickle 6 Dec 2017
        Replying to @part_ickle @aral

        partwave∴ Retweeted Computer Facts

        https://twitter.com/computerfact/status/925385973189537794 …

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        Computer Facts @computerfact
        trick or treat? with computers its both
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      2. Lukas Rosenstock‏ @LukasRosenstock 6 Dec 2017
        Replying to @aral

        I can not confirm this, might have to do with StartPage. My Firefox kept @duckduckgo as default during update.

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      3. Who's awesome?  🐶 👉 YOU are awesome!‏ @ArmEagle 7 Dec 2017
        Replying to @LukasRosenstock @aral @DuckDuckGo

        See a response and reactin higher up in this Twitter thread. It's a problem with non-default-listed searchengines.

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      4. Lukas Rosenstock‏ @LukasRosenstock 8 Dec 2017
        Replying to @ArmEagle @aral @DuckDuckGo

        Ah ok, good to know.

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