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Re:Apple Antitrust Probe – Responses to Congress [pdf] by rgovostes on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @04:18PM (#21588628)
> It had private browsing in 2005

I stand corrected.

> It added DDG as an option in 2014, while Chrome added it only this year.

There's a nuance here. Apple's list of search engines comes from a cryptographically signed file which only they can modify. Chrome allowed you to manually configure DDG, but omitted it from the pre-configured list of search engines that included Bing and Yahoo!.

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Re:Apple Antitrust Probe – Responses to Congress [pdf] by saagarjha on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @04:20PM (#21588646)
Interestingly, the ability to add a new search engine has been removed from Safari with the deprecation of legacy extensions.
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Re:Apple Antitrust Probe – Responses to Congress [pdf] by millstone on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @04:41PM (#21588848)
It's true that you couldn't add it as an option to the fixed list, but in practice there were extensions that enabled it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3770958 is a fun trip down memory lane.

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