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  • carlosfmEnglish
    211·
    6 个月前

    I’ve tried it on my phone. Doesn’t let me search for anything because I use an adblocker. No dice

    • VonReposti@feddit.dkEnglish
      9·
      6 个月前

      Update your filters, it’s a recent issue with Qwant which uBlock at least have fixed.

      • carlosfmEnglish
        22·
        6 个月前

        My filters are always updated. It’s Qwant who should update their website…

      • sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        281·
        6 个月前

        Google is the default search engine because they pay a lot to mozilla, I doubt that would change

        • Emanuel@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
          161·
          6 个月前

          That’s why I said a default engine; Firefox comes prepackaged with a few default search engines, Google being the one selected OOTB

          • 4amEnglish
            181·
            6 个月前

            I think “default” on this context would refer to the search engine that is selected OOTB; Google is the default; the others are merely included. There can be only one default.

            • Emanuel@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
              81·
              6 个月前

              Well, semantics. Then I’d have to correct myself and suppose that Qwant would be included.

    • Gueoris@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      6 个月前

      I use it every day. The results are much better than Duckduckgo, but maybe that’s because I’m French and it’s a French service.

      I don’t know how good it is for non-French customers.

      • Facni@kbin.social
        91·
        6 个月前

        I have tried it in English and Spanish, the first results are usually the same as DuckDuckGo, but the rest are worse.

    • taanegl@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      6 个月前

      Been using it since I read DDG was discovered having trackers from Microsoft, which they’ve since removed - or so they claim.

      I can say that 2 times out of 10 I defer to DDG, or even Google. But it’s good enough and they are based in the EU, so they are forced by law to follow certain privacy measures.

      If Mozilla teams up with them, I’m only expecting Qwant to get better - and it’s supporting competition, so that’s nice.

      • dick_stitchesEnglish
        1·
        6 个月前

        Been using it since I read DDG was discovered having trackers from Microsoft, which they’ve since removed - or so they claim.

        Considering the only news results I get on DDG are from MSN, I believe it, but also I’m guessing the net result is the same…

  • jqubed@lemmy.worldEnglish
    103·
    6 个月前

    Ever since it came out that the company they partnered with to remove personal information from data brokers was owned by a guy who’d started and owned numerous data brokers, I’ve become a little skeptical that they’re doing their due diligence on their partners.

  • le_saucisson_masquay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    6 个月前

    Is Mozilla going to set qwant as default search engine ? Or at least stop setting Google as default ?

    If no, then this is just PR crap no one should care about. Not that many people care about Firefox anyway (2% market share nowadays).