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Hey there, Yea... You'd actually get rid of the biggest spyware - Google ;) Our extension is 33kB and has not other function than changing your default (and c

Hey there, Yea... You'd actually get rid of the biggest spyware - Google ;) Our extension is 33kB and has not other function than changing your default (and checking if the extension itself is installed). You actually can try it out in incognito mode and any other browser. But we found that without the convenience of a navbar search, most people won't give it a proper try either way. I hope we can drop this requirement even in Chrome when we become one of the default options. We will implement an a/b test and see if we can get rid of the requirement even earlier. If you set your search engine default to https://you.com https://you.com manually in Chrome with "https://you.com/search?q=%s https://you.com/search?q=%s" you will not need the extension... but for most people convenience wins and well... It's tough to go up against a monopoly that controls the browser too? You can find more details for every browser setup here: https://youdotcom.notion.site/Make-You-com-your-default-search-f87c10bbfe7e4e34ae89aeba7e77f474 https://youdotcom.notion.site/Make-You-com-your-default-sear...

skinkestek 5y ago
> You'd actually get rid of the biggest spyware - Google ;) Good point now that I realize that it works in other browsers. My initial impression was that 1) it only worked in Chrome and 2) it required an extension to work even there. I wish you luck and also think this is a good time to launch: I feel I was an early adopter of Google and I have now more or less left Google behind (it is now DuckDuckGo.com by default, and even some search.marginalia.nu). A few years ago Google was so amazing it was impossible to compete with them but these days they are making it easy for DDG which is kind of OK and search.marginalia.nu is coming up as the small but delightful alternative :-)
BillSaysThis 5y ago
I hear what you've posted about competing with a $2t competitor but I'm not installing an extension and changing default search engine just to try your service out. Even going incognito or using another browser is more effort than reasonable to play around. Put a banner at the top requesting the change but blocking users? That's just unfriendly and puts me off from the start.

skinkestek 5y ago

> You'd actually get rid of the biggest spyware - Google ;) Good point now that I realize that it works in other browsers. My initial impression was that 1) it only worked in Chrome and 2) it required an extension to work even there. I wish you luck and also think this is a good time to launch: I feel I was an early adopter of Google and I have now more or less left Google behind (it is now DuckDuckGo.com by default, and even some search.marginalia.nu). A few years ago Google was so amazing it was impossible to compete with them but these days they are making it easy for DDG which is kind of OK and search.marginalia.nu is coming up as the small but delightful alternative :-)

BillSaysThis 5y ago

I hear what you've posted about competing with a $2t competitor but I'm not installing an extension and changing default search engine just to try your service out. Even going incognito or using another browser is more effort than reasonable to play around. Put a banner at the top requesting the change but blocking users? That's just unfriendly and puts me off from the start.