<story><title>Linux Mint: The new Ubuntu?</title><url>http://www.extremetech.com/computing/104581-linux-mint-the-new-ubuntu</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Alterlife</author><text>Linux Mint has put Google custom search into the distribution in order to raise revenue. It&apos;s in firefox both from the address bar, the search box, and in the quick search from the &apos;start&apos; menu. It&apos;s very annoying, and it isn&apos;t just a matter of opting out. Mint doesn&apos;t support an easy way to remove it from all three locations without getting technical.&lt;p&gt;I used mint for a couple of months, the custom search engine came back every time I updated a browser, and it was very annoying to reset settings. It was a deal breaker for me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dchest</author><text>Also, this is absolutely unacceptable:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Our goal is to give users a good search experience while funding ourselves by receiving a share of this income. Search engines who do not share the income generated by our users, are removed from Linux Mint and might get their ads blocked.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1851&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1851&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Linux Mint: The new Ubuntu?</title><url>http://www.extremetech.com/computing/104581-linux-mint-the-new-ubuntu</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Alterlife</author><text>Linux Mint has put Google custom search into the distribution in order to raise revenue. It&apos;s in firefox both from the address bar, the search box, and in the quick search from the &apos;start&apos; menu. It&apos;s very annoying, and it isn&apos;t just a matter of opting out. Mint doesn&apos;t support an easy way to remove it from all three locations without getting technical.&lt;p&gt;I used mint for a couple of months, the custom search engine came back every time I updated a browser, and it was very annoying to reset settings. It was a deal breaker for me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SlipperySlope</author><text>What about if Google Chrome is one&apos;s preferred browser and Google search is one&apos;s preferred search engine. Would Mint&apos;s custom search still be as annoying?</text></comment>