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Re: Exclusive – Yahoo Using Dirty Tactics to Switch Google & Firefox Users?

Eamonn Sterley — Mon, 20 Jul 2015 18:27:24 -0000

Google always allows me to reload the pages I was on before shutting down. Now I have to search in history every single time to get the pages back thanks to Yahoo. Amazing what one gets away with given enough resources and legal loopholes. It is next to impossible to get Google default back.

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Sarky Fish — Sat, 13 Sep 2014 15:21:24 -0000

I'm an older person with little computer knowledge, Recently, Yahoo hijacked Firefox on my computer and wiped out Google. It's theft and shoplifting as far as I'm concerned. As a computer novice it took hours and help from others to fix the problems that Yahoo created. It felt like elder abuse, a term I've never much cared for, but there it was: young geeks in Silicon Valley forcing older people do do something they did not want to do. I am contacting state and federal representatives to voice my complaint.

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Jason Kuiper — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:28:24 -0000

It is annoying with the two battling for your business every time u try to click on the internet. yahoo is much easier to use I believe!

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joarc — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:40:55 -0000

Yea, well John I'd like to say that I mindlessly accepted Yahoo's invasion like so many do and they wonder how they got all those toolbars etc. But that is not the case for me. Agreeing along the way I probably did BUT it wasn't in plain view and had to of been hidden deep in the t&c's which I am sure you would agree get scrolled through and seldom read from beginning to end. I appreciate what you are saying here but this is not the case for me and I am not a newbie. By the way, I still can't get rid of Yahoo search from my address bar. I suppose if I spent weeks hovering in the forums I might get lucky with a fix. Any suggestions that would be more useful for people like me?

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john f. — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:42:28 -0000

Hey folks, it's not called highjacking when someone walks up to you and says "Do you mind if I have your car?" and you mindlessly answer affirmatively, step out, and hand them the keys. Not only is this story a complete lie (IE7 was never offered with Messenger), but most of you complaining about someone "highjacking" your settings were actually asked if you wanted this to happen and you happily clicked the "Yes" button without even bothering to discover what you were saying "yes" to. Wake up and take responsibility for your own mistakes.

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eyesonly — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 06:18:12 -0000

Google are a front for all the 3 letter government agencies to spy on people. Since 911 Google has come from nowhere to a point where people now say google this and that like it's mainstream language.

Microshaft don't care what you do as long as you buy their products. They are like Boyscouts compared to Googles agenda.

For a clean search engine I use searchalot.com as I have for years.

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joarc — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:58:54 -0000

yahoo search has hijacked my firefox address bar (use to type in any word and firefox would go to the most obvious place or redirect to google). i'm pissed.

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Ken Shah — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:47:42 -0000

they are ba****rds of the first degree,using such lowdown tactics,should be ashmed of themselves.now on i swiched all my emails to gmail.yahoo lost its respect i hope others will follow my way soon.

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alexf2000 — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:12:11 -0000

How is that related specifically to Google? If toolbar "fixes" settings it will change whatever search engine you have there.

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Scott Jones — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:46:57 -0000

Yahoo Search Marketing will do anything to take your $$$.

They are very sneaky into getting you to pay big $$$ for each "click" without you even realizing it. 24 hours later...you're down at least $50.00....even $100...on up...with nothing to show for it!

Google Adwords and MSN are so much better!

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Michael Samuel — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:21:26 -0000

Yahoo! seems to do strange behaviors in the last decade! Every time they do this, they lose recognition and reputation...

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Fitness guy — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:35:30 -0000

Ok..so when does the lawsuit start? Isn't that where situations like this normally end up? Then everyone gets publicity and blog traffic.

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Amy — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:01:16 -0000

It'll only get worse. At least Google uses clear language when they want real estate on your desktop. Yahoo uses "Microsoft-speak" the purpose of which is to confuse you and set Yahoo as default everything. Yahoo's Microsoft strategic partnership wants to push IE on you ~ if you ask Yahoo customer service, they'll acknowledge that their IM client works best with IE. You can just say no to all of them and set wikipedia or an search engine "without tracks" like ixquick as your default browser in FF.

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Alan Marks — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:58:42 -0000

You know, this isn't much different to what the Google toolbar, or most of the other things that Google creates. They all let you import settings from other companies products in an automated fashion, but not export them to other programs.

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Nec batteries — Mon, 14 May 2007 11:08:44 -0000

The war between Yahoo and Goole was good for users.
I was pleased with that.

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dnn — Mon, 07 May 2007 05:48:43 -0000

This is not a good idea, bad luck Yahoo!

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Emily — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:30:41 -0000

^^^sorry for typo, Microsoft of course is the largest software co, Google #2^^

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Emily — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:27:41 -0000

There is no power struggle between Google and Yahoo. The very concept in 2007 is a joke. Market share numbers alone reveal that (surprise lol) Google has won hands-down. Microsoft has kept Yahoo in business which is what last year's "strategic partnership" was all about. Since that agreement and major cash payment to Yahoo, all of Yahoo's important programs (except search) like IM are licensed from Microsoft; there's little question that Microsoft will end up buying Yahoo ~ it's just a matter of time. Google isn't any angel but Yahoo's behavior this past year make them look like one. Here's the thing I like about Google most beside the fact that they're the largest and most powerful software company on earth by market capitalization alone ~ (1) unlike anyone else, they have Microsoft's respect (some would say fear lol); (2) unlike Yahoo or Microsoft, Google puts their TOS / EULA's in plain language that even you and I can read ~ heck, 99.9% of ppl using Windows can't even understand the what each of 3,000+ programs in Windows Vista Ultimate/Enterprise DO. XP wasn't much better in the verbiage catagory. Microsoft and its baby clone Yahoo don't want you to understand this stuff because if you did... well, you fill in the rest of that sentence from your own experience with Windows. Maybe you adore Windows and think Microsoft actually cares even the tiniest bit about you ~ fine, can you understand their TOS / EULA's? My husband's a corporate attorney and even he can't. This to me is not a good sign of honorable intentions on Yahoo and Microsoft's part. The one major difference between Yahoo and Microsoft is that Yahoo lies right to your face ~ at least Microsoft is shrewd enough to obfuscate the truth.

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WhoMe — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:05:00 -0000

I just want to get rid of the advertising. Yeah, I know, Yahoo's TOS doesn't allow that. Regardless, I bet someone has written a blocker and I'm looking for one. If I don't find one, I'm dumping YM and sticking with Trillian.

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Patrick — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 08:54:23 -0000

I use a mix of yahoo and Google. i will search with Google but i have a yahoo account. I did not like it though, when my homepage was changed and IE7 was installed.

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melody archuleta — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 23:42:04 -0000

I would appreciate it if I could have a google home page without yahoo popping up over it

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jMan — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 12:03:39 -0000

Lol....
I think the wars between google and the others are just starting to heat up.

Who knows what they will start doing next

jMan

http://searchengine.jeremyg...

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Mateosquared — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:36:35 -0000

I knew they were evil. It doesn't stop there, you should see what they did to our account when we switched over to the Panama platform. We now have keywords in places they do not belong, ads without headlines and descriptions and new rules invoked upon our site. They have obviously turned into a puppet of Microsoft, and are willing to be Microsoft's lap dog for a few extra searches. It is sad how a once promising company has stooped so low.

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Huh? — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:05:41 -0000

"The point here, again, is that this is Yahoo Messenger, the chat function, doing a major screwing with the rest of your environment.

Bullshit.

This happens IF YOU CHOOSE TO INSTALL THE YAHOO TOOLBAR.

Google does the EXACT SAME THING.

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akkdtwaw — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:31:21 -0000

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