Firefox Yanks Russian Search Providers From Their Browser
This morning I woke up to Firefox wanting to do an update to version 98.0.1. So I dutifully did the update that it requested. And when I checked to see what changed, I saw this:
Those are Russian search engines. That immediately got my attention as I was not aware that Firefox used any Russian search engines. I am going to go out on a limb and suggest that Mozilla is concerned about mis-information being spread via having those search engines in Firefox. Which these days is a legitimate concern.
I’m now waiting for the announcement that Firefox is banned in Russia as a result of this move.
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Firefox Yanks Russian Search Providers From Their Browser
This morning I woke up to Firefox wanting to do an update to version 98.0.1. So I dutifully did the update that it requested. And when I checked to see what changed, I saw this:
Those are Russian search engines. That immediately got my attention as I was not aware that Firefox used any Russian search engines. I am going to go out on a limb and suggest that Mozilla is concerned about mis-information being spread via having those search engines in Firefox. Which these days is a legitimate concern.
I’m now waiting for the announcement that Firefox is banned in Russia as a result of this move.
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This entry was posted on March 16, 2022 at 8:10 am and is filed under Commentary with tags Firefox, Russia. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.