Honestly I dont see how this is a "choice". In fact this sounds exactly opposite of the choice. In this particular case Firefox has made the choice on our behalf that we are better off using Yahoo's crappy search results instead of market leader Google.
If you are making a browser which is focused on giving freedom to users you are supposed to :
1. Either let the users chose the search engine as an on-boarding step.
2. Offer industry best/leader as default.
In this particular case Firefox has made a suboptimal choice on our behalf in the name of "choice".
How exactly is this different from :
1. Comcast taking more money from Netflix to give them better bandwidth ?
Now my grandmother will end up seeing 0 organic search results above the fold and will have to learn to either change the search settings or simply use that icon with Red Green and Yellow around a blue dot (Chrome).
Mozilla are known for their doublespeak (best example to-date being https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2014/02/11/publish...), but this is one of their more honest pieces - they are giving users a choice of search engines; nonetheless, I can see why the title rubs you the wrong way, and I'd also prefer the original one which was "Yahoo and Mozilla form Strategic Partnership".
If you are making a browser which is focused on giving freedom to users you are supposed to :
1. Either let the users chose the search engine as an on-boarding step. 2. Offer industry best/leader as default.
In this particular case Firefox has made a suboptimal choice on our behalf in the name of "choice".
How exactly is this different from :
1. Comcast taking more money from Netflix to give them better bandwidth ?
Now my grandmother will end up seeing 0 organic search results above the fold and will have to learn to either change the search settings or simply use that icon with Red Green and Yellow around a blue dot (Chrome).