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  • carlosfm@lemm.eeEnglish
    211·
    9 months ago

    I’ve tried it on my phone. Doesn’t let me search for anything because I use an adblocker. No dice

    • EmanuelEnglish
      13·
      9 months ago

      I’m guessing that Qwant will now appear as a default search engine

      • sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        281·
        9 months ago

        Google is the default search engine because they pay a lot to mozilla, I doubt that would change

        • EmanuelEnglish
          161·
          9 months ago

          That’s why I said a default engine; Firefox comes prepackaged with a few default search engines, Google being the one selected OOTB

          • 4am@lemm.eeEnglish
            161·
            9 months ago

            I think “default” on this context would refer to the search engine that is selected OOTB; Google is the default; the others are merely included. There can be only one default.

            • EmanuelEnglish
              81·
              9 months ago

              Well, semantics. Then I’d have to correct myself and suppose that Qwant would be included.

    • Gueoris@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      9 months ago

      I use it every day. The results are much better than Duckduckgo, but maybe that’s because I’m French and it’s a French service.

      I don’t know how good it is for non-French customers.

      • Facni@kbin.social
        91·
        9 months ago

        I have tried it in English and Spanish, the first results are usually the same as DuckDuckGo, but the rest are worse.

    • taanegl@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      9 months ago

      Been using it since I read DDG was discovered having trackers from Microsoft, which they’ve since removed - or so they claim.

      I can say that 2 times out of 10 I defer to DDG, or even Google. But it’s good enough and they are based in the EU, so they are forced by law to follow certain privacy measures.

      If Mozilla teams up with them, I’m only expecting Qwant to get better - and it’s supporting competition, so that’s nice.

      • dick_stitches@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        Been using it since I read DDG was discovered having trackers from Microsoft, which they’ve since removed - or so they claim.

        Considering the only news results I get on DDG are from MSN, I believe it, but also I’m guessing the net result is the same…

  • jqubed@lemmy.worldEnglish
    103·
    9 months ago

    Ever since it came out that the company they partnered with to remove personal information from data brokers was owned by a guy who’d started and owned numerous data brokers, I’ve become a little skeptical that they’re doing their due diligence on their partners.

  • le_saucisson_masquay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    9 months ago

    Is Mozilla going to set qwant as default search engine ? Or at least stop setting Google as default ?

    If no, then this is just PR crap no one should care about. Not that many people care about Firefox anyway (2% market share nowadays).