Post #1385030
2022-12-19 21:44 UTC
@cdub @michaelchampion
Ok, I'm willing to hear that. We can agree on the problems and disagree on how to label them. Let me try this differently.
Shipping browsers with a default search engine, often paid for, has a number of effects that are detrimental to people. It's a serious problem which we need to fix, including considering its impact on browser diversity. Is there someone on your end who'd be interested in working on that?
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@michaelchampion@indieweb.social 2022-12-19 22:11
@robin @cdub Well, the first casualty of ending browser search engine defaults would surely be Mozilla, and then probably a non-Chromium Safari. Is enhancing the Chromium monopoly an acceptable price to pay to fix the damage default search engine cause? I don't know. But it's not like the rest of the ecosystem will go on -- for better and worse -- if you "fix" the pollution-spewing engine driving the browser business model.