On Mon, 2015-10-05 at 20:58 +0200, Timothy Hobbs wrote: > Lately, I feel that this trust has been violated. Most notably, by > the > addition of advertisements to iceweasel's new tab page. > http://timothy.hobbs.cz/iceweasel-ads.png See the "Booking.com" > sponsored link.
AFAICT that's a bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=787174 I would like to see an in-depth discussion of where Debian draws the > line when it comes to interaction of packaged software with > commercial > services. Iceweasel has, for years now, used google.com as the > default > search engine. I doubt few would disagree with that choice, despite > the > fact that Mozilla gets paid by Google to make it that way. Iceweasel seems to use Google by default, but I think Firefox switched to Yahoo? There was some talk about sharing revenue from Duckduckgo, but I don't think that happend? https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2012/03/msg00092.html DDG is available as a search engine in Iceweasel though. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5
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