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Comment by catwell | Hacker News Reader

Apparently it is a bug. It works for search engines shipped with Firefox (such as DuckSuckGo) but not for others (such as StartPage of Qwant). See https://twitter.com/gchampeau/status/938757076213518336

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It sounds like Mozilla just wants to keep users confined to a pre-approved list of search engines. Are these also business partners with Mozilla, like Google?

Here are some other HTTPS-enabled search engines to test. If I am not mistaken all have been mentioned on HN in the past.

    https://wiby.me 
    https://gigablast.com
    https://mojeek.com
    https://unbubble.eu
    https://ecosia.org
    https://searx.me
    https://symbolhound.com
    https://findx.com

It looks like a mistake, not malice.

you mean that the omission of the above lesser known engines was a mistake and they will soon appear? I grant that you're responding to a "response" that should have been a new thread, instead, since it's really a new topic - but it's not alleging the switch was malice.

I have a hard time believing this kind of happy coincidence benefiting their commercial partner could be a bug, it really looks like an intended feature.

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