Apple Considered Making DuckDuckGo Default Search Engine in Safari Private Browsing Mode

[MAlbi]

I dislike Google because most search results direct me to shops and payed google ads results. Almost no information sites like in former times on the first pages.

Duckduckgo is slightly better, adds no tracking but search results are are bad too (for me).

Be concerned about spending your hard earned money. Privacy might not be here top priority. Your money is the priority. Impulse buying is dangerous, think twice, leave the purchase for another morning.

 

[dba415]

If apple cared about privacy, give up the billions annually that google pays them to be default search. Oh wait, they won't so they are admitting that they don't care about privacy.

 

[NightfallOrchid]

Some people accuse Google search of getting your personal information.
But I don't understand how visiting a web site can get personal information about you and link it to the correct physical person.

Websites can get all kinds of information about you: name, version and build number of your browser, the OS and computer you use, specific settings of your browser, and so on. With enough information of this kind, they can almost individually identify each visitor, even if they can’t link it to a specific physical persion

 

[mazz0]

If there’s no viable alternative to Google then what are Google getting for their billions of dollars?

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

I was joking, but a surprising number of people actually do this, or used to do this on the desktop, when Google search is not the browser home page like they are used to.

But back in the day early on people did need to do that. Then browsers added a web search box, but it’s been years now with a single box.

 

[dragoon2745]

Honest question - Why does it matter if Google has a monopoly? Consumers are harmed because Google might not innovate as much as it would with competition? It's not like Google is raising their price for their search engine they way Walmart can if they chase out local retail stores.

 

[marzbarz]

Guess you never chose Apple devices because of the security benefits

People who really know security get how to use google and still be secure. 😉

 

[MacBH928]

If you are looking for privacy friendly search engines there are some options:

Brave Search (independent of Google and Bing)
Qwant
Startpage
Mojeek (independent of Google and Bing. Search quality are underwhelming)
Metager
presearch.io
Andi (supposed to be a Q&A bot but does searches too)


and if you feel like paying $10 a month

Kagi.com

i don't think there is a perfect solution for privacy. Brave for instance also has been accused of being not as private as they claim.
so use what you think might work best for you, but don't expect to be saved by some miracle by going one certain route.
but also keep in mind that you also won't die a horrible death just because you've been using Google.

but there is other things to consider aswell, like why are so many self proclaimed privacy focused DNS server providers giving their services for free, while having to rely on some very expensive infrastructures?
do they purposely solely exist to lose millions or trillions of dollars just for the common wellbeing?

There is something different about Brave. Brave is independent. Unlike DDG and Startpage, if Google and Bing would shut down Brave would continue to work just as always. Its a competitor to Bing and Google, not thier client.

 

[svish]

Good to know abut this. Glad that there is at least an option to switch to other search engines.

 

[webkit]

Honest question - Why does it matter if Google has a monopoly? Consumers are harmed because Google might not innovate as much as it would with competition? It's not like Google is raising their price for their search engine they way Walmart can if they chase out local retail stores.

As far as their search business, the "harm" is that Google has too much power, influence, control, etc. over the delivery and manipulation of content/information on the internet. They also have too much power, influence, control, etc. over search ad marketing including pricing/costs. There are also the allegedly illegal search default agreements with companies like Apple which are used to help Google maintain its "monopoly" in search.

Google as a company is also dominant in other areas like browsers (witch Chrome) and mobile OS (with Android) and, one way or another, uses all to help them maintain dominance in each through default settings, pre-installation, bundling, etc.

 

[headlessmike]

As far as their search business, the "harm" is that Google has too much power, influence, control, etc. over the delivery and manipulation of content/information on the internet. They also have too much power, influence, control, etc. over search ad marketing including pricing/costs. There are also the allegedly illegal search default agreements with companies like Apple which are used to help Google maintain its "monopoly" in search.

Google as a company is also dominant in other areas like browsers (witch Chrome) and mobile OS (with Android) and, one way or another, uses all to help them maintain dominance in each through default settings, pre-installation, bundling, etc.

At least this is what the ongoing trial will attempt to determine.

 

[bluecoast]

Funny that loads of iPhone users are using google still.

That’s like religiously working out and then having loads of beer, pizza and chocolate afterwards, every time.

I don’t understand the comments about ddg being worse then google either.

I’ve used it for 5 years and on the rare occasions that it falls short and I’ve gone back to google (in private mode), google isn’t much better.

 

[harold.ji]

If Apple ever needs to replace Google with another search engine, that new one should be AI-based like the new BING, not some SuckSuckGo please.

 

[return2sendai]

Quakers!

 

[AgeOfSpiracles]

Kind of agree. But it's not just the length, it's the silliness. They really need to rebrand this good search engine with a better name. And right or wrong, it's hard to take it seriously for use in business environments because of the name and amateurish logo.

There are much sillier tech product names that are fully embedded into business computing. This isn't the 70's anymore, with IBM's stodgy image and army of drones wearing identical suits.