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I generally don't like when technology gets itself in the way to solve a problem. Why would you need the user to make your search engine the default one before

I generally don't like when technology gets itself in the way to solve a problem. Why would you need the user to make your search engine the default one before even trying it? This is red flag at least for me, far from convenient and I doubt that installing an extension can be justified by privacy. If your search has better value to me than say, Google, why don't let me make the decision of putting it as my default? You're asking me upfront to grant you privileges (access to Chrome API's that are otherwise not available to you) by installing an extension? That is a no-go for many security minded people. Also: Opening an extension link after clicking on the "search" input field looks pretty much like a dark pattern to me. This is something to avoid when it comes to a friendly UX.

spiderice 5y ago
I'm really not sure what you are talking about. Go to you.com and type a search query. No need to make anything the default. No need to install an extension. Edit: Ah, now I see. It's because I'm a Safari user. If you go to you.com in Safari it works fine. However, if you go to it in Chrome it does indeed work as you described, asking you to install the extension and whatnot. My mistake.
- cabalamat 5y ago
  It says on the front page "Add you.com to Chrome to get started" which to my mind implies that in order to get started you have to be using Chrome and add the extension to it. You don't have to, you can just use it as a web page, the text is misleading and should be changed.
  - jayknight 5y ago
    I think that's only if you're using Chrome. I'm in firefox and just did some searches like you'd do on any other search engine. That's a really weird design choice regardless.
- asaq 5y ago
  I get "To see results and get the convenience of you.com, you’ll need to add the you.com Chrome extension"
arcticfox 5y ago
Incognito mode seems to work for testing FWIW

spiderice 5y ago

I'm really not sure what you are talking about. Go to you.com and type a search query. No need to make anything the default. No need to install an extension. Edit: Ah, now I see. It's because I'm a Safari user. If you go to you.com in Safari it works fine. However, if you go to it in Chrome it does indeed work as you described, asking you to install the extension and whatnot. My mistake.

cabalamat 5y ago
It says on the front page "Add you.com to Chrome to get started" which to my mind implies that in order to get started you have to be using Chrome and add the extension to it. You don't have to, you can just use it as a web page, the text is misleading and should be changed.
- jayknight 5y ago
  I think that's only if you're using Chrome. I'm in firefox and just did some searches like you'd do on any other search engine. That's a really weird design choice regardless.
asaq 5y ago
I get "To see results and get the convenience of you.com, you’ll need to add the you.com Chrome extension"

arcticfox 5y ago

Incognito mode seems to work for testing FWIW