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原來 Waterfox 早就被廣告公司收購了… – Gea-Suan Lin's BLOG

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原來 Waterfox 早就被廣告公司收購了...

看到「Waterfox G4.1.0 update reduces requirement to SSE 4.1, sets Startpage as the default search engine for Private Tabs」這篇才發現 Waterfox 在 2019 年年底的時候早就被廣告公司 System1 收購:「Waterfox web browser sold to System1」,過了兩個多月被 Ghacks 寫成新聞後才發表對應的公告:「Waterfox has joined System1」。

先前研究 Google Chrome 的替代品時有列到清單裡找機會測,看起來可以跳過了...

而這次的報導則是題到了 Waterfox 將 Private Tabs 的預設搜尋引擎改成 Startpage,關於 Startpage 之前在「Startpage 被廣告公司收購」這邊也提過了...

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Startpage 被廣告公司收購

從 Hacker News 上看到 Reddit 上的消息 (看起來有陣子了):「Startpage is now owned by an advertising company」。 Startpage 算是之前有在用的 default search engine,但發現有很多 bug 後就不太用了。目前還是先設 DuckDuckGo,然後在需要的時候用之前寫的 press-g-to-google-duckduckgo 切到 Google 去找... DuckDuckGo 還是有搜尋品質的問題...

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原來 Disqus 已經被網路廣告公司買走了...

在「Disqus, the dark commenting system」這邊才看到 Disqus 被網路廣告公司買的消息: Disqus was acquired by an advertising company called Zeta Global in 2017. Obviously, advertising companies do everything to increase their revenue (Ex: the Big G). 引用的報導則是在「Zeta Global acquires commenting service Disqus」這邊可以看到,大約在三年前發生的事情... 基本上已經變成廣告追蹤平台了: I analyzed the network requests log. Disqus makes HTTP requests to…

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CDNetworks 的負面 PR

我有利用 Twitter Search 的 feed 訂閱一些關鍵字,其中幾個就是跟 CDN (Content Delivery Network) 有關的關鍵字,包括了幾個比較大的 CDN 公司名稱,以及我們在用的 CDN 公司名稱 (我們用的是 Panther Express,二月的時候被 CDNetworks 收購)。 剛剛爬起來看到 feed 裡面一堆 CDNetworks 的資訊,但又看不懂到底是什麼鬼,看了官方網頁也看不出來發生什麼事情 (被 Google 併購?但也不太對,才剛看到 Admob 被買,同時就要再併購韓國的上市公司?),結果翻其他的 feed 的時候在 TechCrunch 上面看到發生什麼事情了:「Here’s Some PR For You, CDNetworks」。 內容如同標題,我看完笑得超開心的 XDDD 我猜這應該是韓國總公司的 PR team 幹的事情?美國搞 PR 的單位應該很清楚 FTC 在十月的時候要求任何的利益交換都必須被揭露,不論是公司還是個人:「FTC Publishes…

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a611ee8db44c8d03a20edf0bf5a71d80?s=49&d=identicon&r=gAuthor Gea-Suan LinPosted on April 17, 2022Categories Browser, Computer, Murmuring, Network, SoftwareTags acquire, ad, browser, merge, system1, waterfox

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