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Re:FFmpeg 6.1 released by gspetr on Saturday November 11, 2023 @03:23AM (#38228492)
I initially did not want to bring this up, but Firefox literally changed my default search engine from DuckDuckGo to Google after I updated it yesterday.

No opt-in, no user input, no warning, no nothing. Just shoved Google down the user's throat.

Do you know where Mozilla gets its money from?

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Re:FFmpeg 6.1 released by clouddrover on Saturday November 11, 2023 @03:29AM (#38228513)
I update Firefox all the time and it doesn't change my default search engine. Now what?

Are you using Mozilla's Firefox builds or a Linux distribution's builds of Firefox?

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Re:FFmpeg 6.1 released by gspetr on Saturday November 11, 2023 @03:53AM (#38228608)
Win10 119.0.1 (64-bit)
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Re:FFmpeg 6.1 released by clouddrover on Saturday November 11, 2023 @04:30PM (#38234747)
Doesn't happen for me on Windows or macOS. It sounds a lot like you're construing an anecdotal incident as a grand conspiracy.
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Re:FFmpeg 6.1 released by guillermin on Saturday November 11, 2023 @03:52AM (#38228601)
I don't think that was due to Mozilla pushing Google. I have Firefox configured with DuckDuckGo on all my devices and this has never happened to me on an update.
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