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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

something Mozilla doesn't even dare, as that's where they get all their Google money from

Or because they're aware that it'd be a huge waste of time and money? It'd be a lot of work to build a search engine anywhere near as good as the existing alternatives, so it'd give worse user experience and waste time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’d be a lot of work to build a search engine anywhere near as good as the existing alternatives,

And yet Brave Search has done so. You got to have to come up with better excuses for Mozilla's failure here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mozilla pushes DuckDuckGo. That is a feature, not a failure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

How exactly are they pushing DuckDuckGo by making Google the default? And anyway, DuckDuckGo is just a wrapper around Bing, so that's not even much of an improvement.