Firefox users were choosing Startpage long before today — to the tune of more than a billion searches a year, every one of them required some assembly: an extension, a manual setting, a workaround.

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[–] 7 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

Search is a choice. Firefox treats it like one. Most browsers have already decided how you’re going to search. Firefox hasn’t.

What? Every browser I've ever seen allows you to change the default. Straight up lies there, Mozilla.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    That's interesting. I thought Google paid to be the default?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I assume they still are but Startpage is just an option now in the settings I think? I could be wrong though

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    [–] 11 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I stopped using Startpage about a year ago, when the results started sucking.

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