Today, Yahoo changed the pricing for their BOSS search API from free to $1.80 per 1000 queries (the main data source of DuckDuchGo search, and other startups): <a href="https://developer.yahoo.com/boss/search/" rel="nofollow">https://developer.yahoo.com/boss/search/</a> and <a href="https://policies.yahoo.com/us/en/yahoo/terms/product-atos/boss/pricing/index.htm" rel="nofollow">https://policies.yahoo.com/us/en/yahoo/terms/product-atos/bo...</a> (the free API "Limited Web" has been discontinued as of June 1st, 2015)
It would be great if they could start by fixing their API and actually repond to developers on their forums: <a href="https://developer.yahoo.com/forums/#/discussion/7106/social-api-issue-yahoo-developers-please-implement-this-suggested-fix-no-access-control-allow-orig" rel="nofollow">https://developer.yahoo.com/forums/#/discussion/7106/social-...</a>
I'm glad that someone sees demand for privacy. I wish Mozilla would brand itself the same way; with their non-profit, public good mission, few could compete with them for user trust. That's how they can compete with FirefoxOS, Firefox for Android, and other products, IMHO -- it would be hard for Google and Apple to convince the public that privacy is their priority after all these years.<p>Based on my limited knowledge, more and more consumers are looking for privacy options. If and when demand for privacy takes off, Mozilla and Yahoo would be in good shape if they were already established in user's minds as the 'trustworthy' vendors.
I enjoyed listening to Alex Stamos on this forward-looking multi-part discussion on cryptography from Blackhat 2013:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33RbRid1deo" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33RbRid1deo</a>
Easy to be snarky about this as Yahoo really is drowning in its own shit and daily bad decisions, but I really like the guy's approach. He'll be at Microsoft or Google in a year.