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Preconfigure Falkon to default to something other than Google for search #108

Closed grahamperrin closed 3 years ago

grahamperrin commented 3 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah8xZ1N68Vo&lc=UgzecxOwLnfk2yKOcP94AaABAg raises a privacy concern.

User-preferred changes to the default are blocked by KDE bug 405423 – Can't change default search engine

Re: https://github.com/helloSystem/ISO/issues/60#issuecomment-753769964 might it be possible to preconfigure a non-standard default?

I recommend the integral StartPage option (StartPage makes smart use of Google for some classes of result). YMMV

probonopd commented 3 years ago

I have intentionally changed Falkon to use Google by default because the other search engines do not produce the same quality results for me. Users are free to set a different one.

grahamperrin commented 3 years ago

Users are free to set a different one.

Unfortunately not (not using the GUI); see the KDE bug.