“Bing is bigger than you think,” Microsoft boasts, at 33% of US searches

Re:“Bing is bigger than you think,” Microsoft boasts, at 33%... by marcosdumay on Monday August 21, 2017 @01:55PM (#15066280)

Firefox isn't. It has a separated search bar and won't send any data over the wires when using the address bar. Ubuntu also changed back from their "we are entitled into spying on anything" opinion, and aren't starting remote searches automatically either.

Anyway, wether those automatic searches will display the ads or not is a different issue. Many will.

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Re:“Bing is bigger than you think,” Microsoft boasts, at 33%... by lucb1e on Monday August 21, 2017 @02:28PM (#15066538)

> Firefox [...] has a separated search bar and won't send any data over the wires when using the address bar

It can does offer suggestions from the address bar, but only after you click "yes I want this". Same for the search bar.

What you say sounds like the search bar does send keypresses and like the address bar can't (both are incorrect).

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Re:“Bing is bigger than you think,” Microsoft boasts, at 33%... by marcosdumay on Monday August 21, 2017 @07:44PM (#15068698)

For the address bar, is it some setting hidden in about.config? I have never found it.

Normal address bar suggestions come from local data stores, not from a search provider. (And I tough both suggestions were enabled by default, but well, it's been many years since I last configured a fresh Firefox install.)

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Re:“Bing is bigger than you think,” Microsoft boasts, at 33%... by lucb1e on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @01:05AM (#15069862)

They've started asking for the opt-in to include search suggestions for a few months now if I remember correctly. Right in the address bar itself, no funny config setting.

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