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I like DDG as much as the next person, but does anyone else think that Mozilla should offer a privacy-friendly search engine? I know it's a big part of their r
by mrgreenfur 6y ago
I like DDG as much as the next person, but does anyone else think that Mozilla should offer a privacy-friendly search engine? I know it's a big part of their revenue model, but it seems like a core piece of internet infrastructure that should not be so open to monetization.
- osamagirl69 6y agoI would rather Mozilla sticks to making a browser that works well and respects privacy. Generally their explorations outside of Firefox (Pocket, the Dr. Robot fiasco, etc) have been regressions of the aforementioned goals.
- wolco 6y agoMr Robot to you. Some saw that as a success.
- tehjoker 6y agoI'd be inclined to agree, but building a new competitive search engine is a big ask. O.o
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- GuB-42 6y agoNo! Mozilla had enough failures already as it tried to do things that are not Firefox. A search engine is a huge endeavor, and I'd rather have them focus on Firefox. Firefox is, after all, the only real alternative to Chrome, others are just different Chromium front-ends, it is important. Or they can do like everyone else: an somewhat anonymized front-end for Bing, but what's the point? We already have DDG and a few others.
- abc-xyz 6y agoPeople should get behind an open source solution, such as Searx (https://searx.space/ https://searx.space/) or Ask.Moe (https://ask.moe/ https://ask.moe/). I love DDG, but at the end of the day they’re for-profit, US-based and closed source.