How long will it be until Google, instead of understanding people are looking for a different search by using udm=14, will close the option with some mambo-jumbo excuse?
It does not respect my desire to change the search engine to something other than the very few on this list. I have to use an extension which redirect all calls to this engine to my engine of choice.
But man, looking at the competition… I tried using Edge on windows for a while, and every. Single. Time I install any windows update whatsoever, it resets my search engine to Bing. It says something like “your search engine may have been inadvertently changed, so we changed it to Bing for your protection” or something horrible. (I use Kagi, installed from an extension.)
It’s very obvious to me that the only reason Edge exists at all is so MS can steer everyone towards Bing. It solves a Microsoft problem, not a user problem (it’s not even their code base, they just de-googled chrome, added a different theme to it and use it to force Bing on you.)
Safari may require an extension but at least it doesn’t repeatedly change the search engine back the moment you turn around.
Not being able to pick my own search engine is just such a shameless money grab by Apple.
I'm aware of that. The extension "fix" is a brittle hack, and it's a shame that it's necessary.
> It has DuckDuckGo so it’s good enough.
Good enough for you, not for everybody. There are more search engines than Google, Bing, and DDG.