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If you previously installed a customized version of Firefox with Yandex or Mail.ru, offered through partner distribution channels, this release removes those customizations, including add-ons and default bookmarks. Where applicable, your browser will revert back to default settings, as offered by Mozilla. All other releases of Firefox remain unaffected by the change.

Bugzilla: 1759009 - Update Distribution Config

lemmy.ml: Firefox v98.0.1 removed Yandex search option and used misleading bug name to hide it

Hacker News: Firefox removed Yandex search option

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

PSA: Yandex has the best reverse image search by a mile. It can even find Instagram posts.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

It's a shame that Russia has to be Russia because Yandex has some good stuff. I like their maps and street view equivalent (it only works for places like Russia and Belarus but I've played around with it out of curiosity) - it's less clunky than Google's and it lets you change the year to view streets scenes from different years. If only that could have gone global.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

They released a new version just for that? Do they not have anything better to do than hating Russia?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Fucking hell Mozilla. First DuckDuckGo, now Firefox. And Brave still refuses to pull its head out of its ass to be a viable alternative. The Fediverse continues to prove that it is the future for people like us, fuck corporations.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

What are you talking about?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I'm talking about privacy and freedom respecting services going out of their way to submit to western politics. I like my services unbiased.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 years ago

Being pro-privacy and pro-freedom is a bias. (Not a bad one)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

The Putin Regime is diabolical, of course. And divestments and boycotts helped bring down South Africa apartheid, so such actions they have their place. But I think what bothers a lot of people is the double standards of corporations doing business with, say, the likes of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia who trample over human rights and whose brutality has created the worst humanitarian crisis in Yemen. It's definitely worth debating the targeting and effectiveness (and consistency, or lack thereof) in such pulling of services.