Submitted 19 hours ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/startpage-on-firefox/
Firefox users were choosing Startpage long before today — to the tune of more than a billion searches a year, every one of them required some assembly: an extension, a manual setting, a workaround.
Search is a choice. Firefox treats it like one.
Most browsers have already decided how you’re going to search. Firefox hasn’t.
What? Every search engine I’ve ever seen allows you to change the default. Straight up lies there, Mozilla.
I don’t know about the US, but allowing choice is even mandated by the EU I believe.
That’s interesting. I thought Google paid to be the default?
Today, starting with Firefox 154, that choice becomes as easy as head to the drop-down menu, hit ‘select,’ and start searching
I assume they still are but Startpage is just an option now in the settings I think? I could be wrong though
Oh I see. I thought they made Startpage the default in these regions, but I misread the article.
who@feddit.org 9 hours ago
Possibly better than doing searches directly through Google, but keep this in mind:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startpage