Is it common for distros to have deals with search providers in exchange for keeping them as the default in their browsers ?
Common? Probably not.
It's not unheard of though. See: Ubuntu.
Debian's Chromium changes default search engine to DDG
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#12This leaves me with conflicting emotions. I don't know where the easiest place to find the actual explanation of the change is (not very familiar with Debian development practices) but I wonder if it clears things up.
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#13DDG 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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#14DDG 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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#16Best approach i think is, they way "ungoogled-chromium" does it.
They don't enforce organization policies, but they set the default config to "no search" and then leave it up to the user to change it.
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#17DDG 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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They know the types of items you buy. You don’t get the exact items from Amazon. They can guess if you click a link to an iPhone and then later bought a $1,200 electronic but if you click on an iPhone and buy a PS5 they don’t know what you bought.
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#18Re: Debian's Chromium changes default search engine to DDG
#19Best approach i think is, they way "ungoogled-chromium" does it. They don't enforce organization policies, but they set the default config to "no search" and then leave it up to the user to change it.
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Re: Debian's Chromium changes default search engine to DDG
#20Context and rationale here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=956012