This isn’t funny, this is just the sad state of software these days.
At least FOSS doesn’t try this. At least not as part of the program (I think there’s some childish behaviour from devs but generally it doesn’t make it to the code).
I thought we were past the age of toolbar spam
It never went away, just the degree of desperation has changed
You Chrome folks need extensions to use non-Google search engines?
Firefox uses just bog standard OpenSearch definitions. No shenanigans. Ships with both Google and Bing if you’re into that sort of things. And you can add arbitrary search URLs, no probalo.
No, it looks like something Windows automatically added to their chrome to enforce Bing, unless something changed recently and I didn’t know about it
You don’t have to use an extension to do it, but some find it easier to do than finding it in settings.
The same is true for Firefox.
What a world we live in.
Yeah, and the one on Amazon is broken for years and no one cares.
There is: https://mycroftproject.com/
There you can just about anything to Firefox’s search providers.i need to know more about opensearch
Microsoft is offering wallpapers, ask Google what it’s offering before you make the decision.
Apart from the search engines being both shitty, here there’s nothing wrong
If you installed an extension to use bing search, what you want is to use bing search, not Google. So of course the extension has to say “don’t switch”
There’s also a good point on chrome’s side. There’s extensions that will switch your default search engine without your consent, so having the possibility to undo directly is nice.
Another way to see it, would be to switch chrome for firefox, Google search for duck duck go, and bing to qwant. Same story, but no shitty companies clouding judgements
You know that scene in Who Framed Roger Rabbit where Donald and Daffy Duck are both playing the same song on individual pianos while trying to kill each other? Yeah.
The screenshot doesn’t show it, but there’s also an X in the top right of the screen.
It’s honestly incredible that Bing even still exists, much less is still being actively being pushed by M$
Bing is the default engine in Edge which is the default browser on Windows. There’s a huuuge demographic who doesn’t care enough to change either of those.
Also, Bing profits from other search engines using their results as a base. DuckDuckGo, for example, uses Bing as their primary source for search results. And in my experience is better at it than google, these days.
Eff M
How does this chrome add-on get installed in the first place?
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