• carlosfm@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I’ve tried it on my phone. Doesn’t let me search for anything because I use an adblocker. No dice

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        1 year ago

        Google is the default search engine because they pay a lot to mozilla, I doubt that would change

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          1 year ago

          That’s why I said a default engine; Firefox comes prepackaged with a few default search engines, Google being the one selected OOTB

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            1 year ago

            I think “default” on this context would refer to the search engine that is selected OOTB; Google is the default; the others are merely included. There can be only one default.

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              1 year ago

              Well, semantics. Then I’d have to correct myself and suppose that Qwant would be included.

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    1 year ago

    First time I’ve heard of this web search engine. Anyone used it?

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      I use it every day. The results are much better than Duckduckgo, but maybe that’s because I’m French and it’s a French service.

      I don’t know how good it is for non-French customers.

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        I have tried it in English and Spanish, the first results are usually the same as DuckDuckGo, but the rest are worse.

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        1 year ago

        Been using it since I read DDG was discovered having trackers from Microsoft, which they’ve since removed - or so they claim.

        Considering the only news results I get on DDG are from MSN, I believe it, but also I’m guessing the net result is the same…

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    1 year ago

    Ever since it came out that the company they partnered with to remove personal information from data brokers was owned by a guy who’d started and owned numerous data brokers, I’ve become a little skeptical that they’re doing their due diligence on their partners.

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    1 year ago

    Is Mozilla going to set qwant as default search engine ? Or at least stop setting Google as default ?

    If no, then this is just PR crap no one should care about. Not that many people care about Firefox anyway (2% market share nowadays).