>From: Joe Btfsplk <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 7:12 PM >Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Google as default search engine revisited > > > >On 1/10/2012 10:26 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> I found a thread in the archive (November 2011), but I could not >> find a satisfying answer to the questions >> >> 1. Why is Google the default search engine in the TOR browser bundle? >> >> 2. Does TOR get money from Google >> a) for using Google as the default search engine? >> b) in general? >Re: Get $. Probably. Just like a lot of other free software get funding >from installing search engines or toolbars. But no one has to use Google >search or even keep their search engine plugin installed (in TBB, Firefox, >etc.). Just install & use the other "privacy respectful" search engines. >"Non-Profit" orgs have to get funds from somewhere. Some don't like Mozilla's >business deals w/ Google - others don't care or even know there IS a >relationship. A lot of people don't like Google, in general, because of their >past privacy invasions (some of which they still do, per Privacy Policy). >Many obviously don't care. > >Bottom line: in any business, if people don't like a certain company or >product & want other competing companies to succeed, that conduct their >business in ways that's more palatable to the customer, then customers must >support / use those other, often smaller companies. Else, there won't be much >competition to choose from.
Insinuating that Tor is adware and that the Tor Project is being compensated for delivering user data is outrageous. There's been a recent increase in FUD (because of the SOPA vote?), but this is pretty over the top. _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
