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Re:Debian's Chromium changes default search engine to DDG by fomine3 on Thursday August 25, 2022 @02:13AM (#32590188)
Maybe DDG is good replacement for English users, but I wonder does debian developers considered is it fine for global users.
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Re:Debian's Chromium changes default search engine to DDG by danShumway on Thursday August 25, 2022 @09:40AM (#32593568)
Of course they do, when the alternative is Google.

Do you want to try and argue that Google is a more private search engine than DDG outside of the US?

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Re:Debian's Chromium changes default search engine to DDG by fomine3 on Thursday August 25, 2022 @10:51AM (#32594427)
privacy isn't the only one criterion to choose search engine. If search quality is very poor for a language, it's not suitable even if it's privacy oriented.
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Re:Debian's Chromium changes default search engine to DDG by danShumway on Thursday August 25, 2022 @11:00AM (#32594566)
Sure, but that's really a separate conversation than what this thread has been talking about so far -- which is whether or not we can trust that DDG is more private than Google.
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