Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️@thenewoil Sounds like companies taking specifically Google's search results and making them anonymous like #Startpage have been disqualified. Sharing other people's search results is just fine though... 🤔 Still, at least this gives smaller search engines that would never win an auction, like #DuckDuckGo a chance.
censored for “transphobia”@Blort @thenewoil #Duckduckgo is just a MitM for #Microsoft. Variety is good but I'd rather see non- #MACFANGY search engines get exposure. Decent choices are being eliminated by the requirement that the search engine have a Playstore app. All 12 search engine choices will be from companies willing to support Google by enriching Playstore.
@thenewoil @Blort BTW, there are many reasons #Duckduckgo is a poor choice: http://techrights.org/2021/03/15/duckduckgo-in-2021/
@Blort @thenewoil btw, that engadget link doesn't do well with uMatrix. This is a better link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210610012748/https://www.engadget.com/google-android-choice-screen-europe-default-search-engine-auction-173936666.html