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Firefox users were choosing Startpage long before today — to the tune of more than a billion searches a year, every one of them required some assembly: an extension, a manual setting, a workaround.
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Possibly better than doing searches directly through Google, but keep this in mind:
Startpage is owned and operated by Surfboard Holding BV, which is majority owned by System1, an American internet advertising company.
Why does Mozilla claim it’s European?
Why Europe first
This launch starts in Startpage’s home markets: a Netherlands-based search engine
I assume their HQ is in the Netherlands
So it’s HQ in NL and owned by Americans? Also marketing is as “privacy-friendly” while being owned by an advertising company is an oxymoron. Seems like propaganda to me.
See also: Motorola Mobility, which is not the successor of the now-defunct Motorola Inc. The headquarters of this separate company is in the USA, but it’s owned by a Chinese company.
(For context, the upcoming GrapheneOS phone is a Motorola Mobility device.)
Search is a choice. Firefox treats it like one. Most browsers have already decided how you’re going to search. Firefox hasn’t.
What? Every browser I’ve ever seen allows you to change the default. Straight up lies there, Mozilla.
I don’t know about the US, but allowing choice is even mandated by the EU I believe.
That’s interesting. I thought Google paid to be the default?
I assume they still are but Startpage is just an option now in the settings I think? I could be wrong though
Oh I see. I thought they made Startpage the default in these regions, but I misread the article.
This is still positive, but I think most will just use whatever Firefox ships as the default.
Today, starting with Firefox 154, that choice becomes as easy as head to the drop-down menu, hit ‘select,’ and start searching
