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Re: Debian's Chromium changes default search engine to DDG

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That sounds like a Firefox bug (and a common one I've seen in other software). Tell me what organization. "Debian" would have been perfectly fine to show here.

How is that a Firefox bug if the software it is reported on is Chromium? Those are two very distinct projects.

Mozilla's never been the same since they started putting bugs in Chromium

Re: Debian's Chromium changes default search engine to DDG

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DDG is for-profit and serves for the most part Bing results. Why not pick something truly open, like search.marginalia.nu?

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Is that really the case here? I really doubt it considering how careful debian is when it comes to privacy. Even the popularity contest is opt in.

Re: Debian's Chromium changes default search engine to DDG

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DDG is for-profit and serves for the most part Bing results. Why not pick something truly open, like search.marginalia.nu?

Flattering.

Unfortunately my search engine is far away, both in terms of functionality and hardware capacity from being able to deal with that. Maybe some day, who knows, but not yet. Even if I'm destined to make the Linux of search engines, we're metaphorically living in 1992 or so.

Would be funny though because it's both developed on a Debian workstation and hosted on a Debian server.

Re: Debian's Chromium changes default search engine to DDG

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Some unintended consequences: > This change caused my chromium browser to report that it's being managed by my "organization". I thought that my machine was somehow compromised. This is terrifying! I wound up deleting my entire chromium profile before I discovered that the root cause was this DuckDuckGo config change. https://bugs.debian.org/956012

Sounds like a Chromium bug, not a Debian bug--it's an insidious way to keep Google search as the default.

Preconfigured profiles are the right way to solve this, it’s just that the message could be worded more kindly.
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