How does having a default web search engine equate to "[Company] is sending *all* search traffic to [other company]"?
Users have preferences and may change the engines they search with, not use Safari at all or be already using Google anyway.
Users have preferences and may change the engines they search with, not use Safari at all or be already using Google anyway.
What they should do instead is to let people select a search engine based on different criteria (including privacy friendliness). Most people would then still choose Google but the effect would be way less pronounced.
The only thing pointing people to DDG or some inferior search engine would be to frustrate non-technical people when their search results become "weird".
Not all search engines are the same. I use DDG by default but I admit there is a huge difference between the two search engines and I use !g more than I'd like to admit.
The 95% statistic only works when you introduce new, hidden option. People used Chrome/Firefox/whatever before Edge, they are used to it, and it's their default.
Well Google ofcourse clearly diasgree given they are willing to pay 15 billion dollars.
which is the point I was addressing in my original comment.