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Firefox lost users during “failed” Yahoo search deal, says Mozilla CEO
(arstechnica.com)
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Another interesting comment Mozilla's takeaway from the experiment was that Firefox "users made it clear that they look for and want and expect Google.”
Im also not convinced. If it were a DDG default it would just make the browser better.
To be clear, I'm not even using DDG as my main search.
DDG is just Bing on the backend. Why is the megacorp Microsoft preferable to the megacorp Google?
I was under the impression that DDG is pretty private and while underlying search is Bing, bing can't track the searches to individuals
Maybe not the individual, but you're still training an internet giant, just a different one.