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Re:Chromium uses web search for .internal TLD instead of ope... by wkat4242 on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @11:55PM (#41931757)
I think it's the autocomplete in particular that leaks a lot of private data. I've rarely had the combined bar do a search when I didn't want it to.

But I use firefox and I turned off autocomplete. And I use my own search instance (SearXNG)

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Re:Chromium uses web search for .internal TLD instead of ope... by talkin on Thursday October 24, 2024 @02:52AM (#41932694)
> I think it's the autocomplete in particular that leaks a lot of private data.

That’s the beauty. The whole unified input can be presented as a UX simplicity gain, while this quote points at the actual business value. ;)

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Re:Chromium uses web search for .internal TLD instead of ope... by exabrial on Thursday October 24, 2024 @10:50PM (#41941815)
Innovation!
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Re:Chromium uses web search for .internal TLD instead of ope... by bmacho on Thursday October 24, 2024 @02:54AM (#41932707)
IIRC there is no setting in Firefox to keep the content of the URL bar local.
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Re:Chromium uses web search for .internal TLD instead of ope... by legacynl on Thursday October 24, 2024 @04:12AM (#41933261)
How could searchengines provide suggestions without your browser sending the url-bar content?

If you want the content of your URL bar to stay local you should disable suggestions

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Re:Chromium uses web search for .internal TLD instead of ope... by GoblinSlayer on Thursday October 24, 2024 @05:15AM (#41933670)
They can do it like they previously did it: provide suggestions by sending the search box content.
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Re:Chromium uses web search for .internal TLD instead of ope... by legacynl on Thursday October 24, 2024 @07:34AM (#41934503)
How is that different in the case of a combined search&url bar?
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Re:Chromium uses web search for .internal TLD instead of ope... by mrngm on Thursday October 24, 2024 @04:15PM (#41939287)
You'll need to explicitly navigate to the input box _designated_ for using a search engine.

If I'm accidentally pasting what I thought was a URL but actually is some other text in the paste buffer in the combined input box, that text is already sent to the search engine (provided suggestions are enabled, which they are by default).

If I do the same in the split URL/search box situation, and paste it in the URL box, it would at most look into the browser's history, keeping the input local.

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