Apple does right by users and advertisers are displeased

Re:Apple does right by users and advertisers are displeased by tryingagainbro on Thursday September 21, 2017 @06:40AM (#15302087)

Firefox, I doubt it. They love the ad money so biting the hand that feeds them is risky, never know who will feed them next and how much.

Microsoft might, even though Bing is profitable and in 2015 brought in ~ $1b a quarter https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/22/bing-is-profitable/ . Might be too much money for Microsoft to ruin it.

All Apple right I think, but if they wanted to hurt Google they could start a search engine, maybe by buying DDG.

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Re:Apple does right by users and advertisers are displeased by 482794793792894 on Thursday September 21, 2017 @01:33PM (#15305705)

As a browser vendor, yes, you have to try to not piss off advertisers, because if website owners don't make money off of your browser, they're not going to test against it much, but why would you list that reason specifically for Firefox? Firefox is the browser that's willing to bite advertisers' hands more than any other browser. They even ship effectively an ad blocker in Private Browsing.

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Re:Apple does right by users and advertisers are displeased by mda on Thursday September 21, 2017 @07:18AM (#15302285)

DDG is not a search engine.

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Re:Apple does right by users and advertisers are displeased by __sr__ on Thursday September 21, 2017 @09:17AM (#15303011)

Can you elaborate? DuckDuckGo[1] sure looks like a search engine to me.

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/

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Re:Apple does right by users and advertisers are displeased by manquer on Thursday September 21, 2017 @09:29AM (#15303103)

OP probably means that DDG uses Bing search results to populate the index

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Re:Apple does right by users and advertisers are displeased by nf05papsjfVbc on Thursday September 21, 2017 @08:24AM (#15302602)

Is it ice-cream? Dance Dance Gelato?

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