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If we're going for fair how about outlawing search engine defaults since they've proven to lead to unreasonable competitive advantage.
by gausswho 4y ago
If we're going for fair how about outlawing search engine defaults since they've proven to lead to unreasonable competitive advantage.
- andsoitis 4y agoWhat's the alternative? During setup you have to choose amongst hundreds of options, e.g. does "you.com" make the list?
- sokoloff 4y agoMaybe those engines could all bid on an annual basis to be positioned higher in the rankings? /s :)
- Closi 4y agoWell it could be a small list chosen by Firefox as a result of an honest selection of the best options their users would most likely want, rather than just defaulting to the megacorp that bribed them with the most money. But I'm really solutionising here, and I'm sure some of the worlds brightest engineers can come up with a solution thats better for users than "we default to whoever pays us the most money".
- kornhole 4y agoLet's create an extension that merely prompts for the URL of your desired search engine. On confirm, it makes all the technical browser settings to set as default.
- kyleee 4y agogood idea, where to start? do you have a good extension skeleton repo to start from? i've only worked on a firefox only extension but it probably should be chrome and ff compatible especially now with brave
- kornhole 4y agoI noticed that Ecosia, Startpage, and Brave search all have extensions that will set those as the default. I am not sure if their code is open, but I imagine the Brave extension is probably best place to start.
- yamtaddle 4y agoBrowsers don't have to have default search engines built-in at all. They didn't used to.
- musictubes 4y agoHuh, I wonder what the effect would be if integrating search into the browser was outlawed. Short term I don't think much would change but long term? Dunno...