Google spent $26 billion to hide this phone setting from you::undefined
They were not paid to “hide this setting”, they were paid to have this setting by default.
Boggles the mind that they actually expect you to pay money for this clickbait trash.
My problem with this whole thing is that Chrome’s only real competition (meaning it’s not based on Chromium) is funded nearly entirely by Google paying to be the default search engine. If you aren’t going to allow search engines to pay to be the default then Mozilla needs to find a completely different way to make money.
Safari is the browser with the second highest usage share and is not in any way based on chrome. It’s limited to Apple platforms though, so other users can’t switch without buying new devices.
Yeah, telling me I can switch from Linux to MacOS is not exactly a solution.
That said, Apple took money from Google to make Google the default on Safari. While I don’t think Apple will crumble without Google’s money, $18 billion certainly more than funds the development of Safari.
No, Chrome is based on Safari.
Apple took khtml, which was developed by the KDE project, and created Webkit. Google then forked Webkit and created Chrome with it.
WebKit and Blink are extremely far diverged at this point, even though Blink was originally a fork of WebKit. Features like sandboxing and process isolation vary significantly on the backend, and feature support for web pages varies greatly. Ask any web developer if they can rely on new web features in chrome also being present in safari, they can’t.
WebKit and Blink are extremely far diverged at this point, even though Blink was originally a fork of WebKit. Features like sandboxing and process isolation vary significantly on the backend, and feature support for web pages varies greatly. Ask any web developer if they can rely on new web features in chrome also being present in safari, they can’t.
Paywall. Can’t read it.
I’ve got ya: https://archive.ph/Tqmxe
This link just puts me into a loop of solving captchas
Thanks man. Genius!
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
The reason we’re able to pull back the curtain on the big business of default settings is because of an antitrust trial against Google underway in Washington, one of the largest in decades.
The U.S. has accused Google of illegally using payments to phone makers and others to deter people from trying alternatives like the privacy-focused DuckDuckGo and or Microsoft-made Bing.
To put that to the test, my colleague Tatum Hunter and I hit the streets of San Francisco and asked strangers to show us how to change the default search engine on their phone.
There, Google’s market share has largely stayed the same; competitors say that’s because the choice screen is shown only once and also because it doesn’t give sufficient information about alternatives.
iPhones ask users to make lots of decisions about privacy, including whether they want to give apps the ability to track them.
Funny thing, though — Apple products don’t ask customers to make any privacy choices about their search engine, it’s just Google by default.
The original article contains 1,447 words, the summary contains 170 words. Saved 88%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
I have just discovered, sadly, that duckduck does not do voice recognition for searching.
I am sad and don’t know if I can adapt.
Wtb link that avoid paywall around or having to make acc to read.
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Same setup, android Firefox with ublock and it wasn’t working Reader mode worked though
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