Open davidhedlund opened 6 years ago
Hi. I've created a repo in response to this: https://github.com/rootvalues/duckduckgo-default
@rootvalues Thank you for taking your time. Can you please ask the DDG developers if you can merge it to https://github.com/duckduckgo/ ? It will get most users if it's released by the DuckDuckGo company.
@alohaas @russellholt Requesting to merge https://github.com/rootvalues/duckduckgo-default to https://github.com/duckduckgo/
@rootvalues Excellent. I'll ask the GNU IceCat developer to add and enable your add-on to the default browser profile if the DDG people upload it to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/duckduckgo/#my-submissions
@rootvalues Is it possible for you to make a Git request?
@davidhedlund I don't think its possible to request to add a repository to DuckDuckGo's profile without developer permission.
@rootvalues Question for you if I may:
Like many others from what I'm reading over the web, I am personally not enjoying this hijacking and would like to be free to choose my search engine, whatever the reason behind that is (accuracy, mood, ...).
Am I correct if I say that this part is responsible for the search engine hijacking?
"chrome_settings_overrides": {
"search_provider": {
"encoding": "UTF-8",
"name": "DuckDuckGo",
"search_url": "https://duckduckgo.com/?q={searchTerms}",
"keyword": "duckduckgo.com",
"favicon_url": "https://duckduckgo.com/favicon.ico",
"suggest_url": "https://duckduckgo.com/ac/?q={searchTerms}&type=list",
"is_default": true
}
}
If so, can I change it somewhere? (From Chrome/Edge or within some file on disk.)
Thanks!
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Got my response by giving it a try. Published the procedure here: https://github.com/duckduckgo/duckduckgo-privacy-extension/issues/90#issuecomment-646094340
DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials adds DuckDuckGo as default search engine but a lot of users don't want the rest of the features.
Usefulness:
Examples of existing add-ons that change the default search engine: