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.
Wow, that is insane... With that sort of mentality, the next logical step is to gain market monopoly, pre-install a version of adblock with custom filters, and start charging the entire Internet to show ads.
And I was all set to install Mint tonight.
I don't begrudge them the right to manage their distro how they want, but I really hate a distro messing with my browser and search like that.
So no, I guess.
Damn.
One is called choice, the other is called blackmail.