One Google software engineer explained that the list was based on “recently collected data” which created new usage stats for Google to work with. Not long after Google turned over the “” domain to DuckDuckGo, the search engine was added to a list of localized preferences over on Github. Available now in Chrome 73, which just hit the stable channel this week, users can now select the privacy-focused search engine as their default. That now includes the arrival of DuckDuckGo as a default search engine provider on Google Chrome.Īs first reported by TechCrunch, Google recently made a silent change to Chrome which enabled two new default search engine providers - DuckDuckGo and Qwant. There are a number of other options, though, and after some antitrust complaints in the past few years, Google is making some changes to promote healthy competition. Many people just don't understand why this stuff matters and what they they should do now.For the vast majority of users right now, Google is the go-to search engine on the web.

It's similar issue with Climate change or gun control or race. I think education plays the largest role here, we need to market to educate people so that they know 'GOOGLE STEALS YOUR DATA!' or 'FB Follows you everywhere' etc and so that they have a reason to want to wanna switch. that's where these products will shine, expect I do fear that because these big tech companies like Google, FB and so forth (expect Apple since they are privacy focused) has such a large role in ur lives and disciplined our behaviours in such as way that even if we step away from these products we will find it hard to do so and revert back to them because its as James clear says a Behavioural Habit. Privacy is the 21st Century's biggest challenges and we will only see more privacy focused products over the next decade because as we become more enriched by different experiences within our homes and outside we will realise the downside of it all- the lack of privacy, the lack of control and the lack of security.

?makers you did an amazing job at trying to compete with Google.

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