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My recent experience with Yahoo:

A while ago after I installed uTorrent all my browsers (Chrome, Firefox and Safari) switched to Yahoo as my default search. Then I changed them back to Google.

After a while (I guess after I rebooted the computer) again all browsers showed Yahoo again. I googled for some help I found a hint that I have to disable and remove the 'Searchme' extension. I did so.

After a while (I guess after I rebooted the computer) again all browsers showed Yahoo again and the Searchme extension showed up again. And still Searchme is there—I took a screenshot http://imgur.com/OsH9o0m

EDIT: Why the downvotes?




"EDIT: Why the downvotes?"

Just a guess, but people might find your comment totally irrelevant to the posted article.


uTorrent is pretty terrible these days, I steer everyone away from it.


Or downgrade to 2.2.1 and disable updates.


And in what direction do you steer them?


Deluge is a good client with a local GUI and web access


transmission


+1 for transmission, great app.


The song is really good too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYaN2w6rcgk


qBittorent is quite nice.

Ninite offers it instead of uTorrent .Not sure why they still offer eMule though.


Yeah, that's almost certainly uTorrent's fault rather than Yahoo's.


Yahoo's the one paying them.


If someone else were paying them, this wouldn't be a problem?


If someone else were paying them, we wouldn't blame yahoo.


You're the only one blaming Yahoo. If Yahoo didn't pay, then the problem would still exist. So why do you blame Yahoo?


I'm certainly blaming Yahoo. Paying browser hijackers isn't exactly the hallmark of a resurgent and reputable internet company.


Back when Google was paying for Chrome to be bundled with installers for Flash, the installer would silently switch your default browser to Chrome. Do you consider Google to be a reputable internet company?




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