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Use the Brave browser then. It's on the App Store. If you're the type of person who wants to add other search engines and trigger them via URL parameters, you'
by snehk 4y ago
Use the Brave browser then. It's on the App Store.
If you're the type of person who wants to add other search engines and trigger them via URL parameters, you're the type of person who knows that Apple's system is a walled garden. At this point, it often doesn't feel like people are asking "Hey, could you improve this?" and more like the same complaint over and over again with the complaint being "Apple is still Apple and instead of buying another thing after Apple being exactly like this, I complain about the thing I bought being the exact thing I bought".
- xg15 4y agoI think the anticompetitive aspect here is different. Suppose you're some amazing new search engine startup with rapid promotion through word-of-mouth. Normally, all you'd have to do would be to present some convenient links (or walkthroughs) how your search engine could be added as the default search engine. Except for iPhones, there is suddenly a gatekeeper. If you don't convince Apple to add you to the list, it won't matter how good you are or how much people want to make you the default engine, as long as Apple says no, they can't.
- snehk 4y agoI get that and I share this sentiment 100%. However, there are various other browsers on the App Store including the one from Brave. I guess I don't see this as someone wanting their favorite search engine to be available in Safari. I see it as chapter #799 of the old story of "Let's talk about Apple making decisions for the user while others allow me to make decisions myself".