Set a different search engine under Settings -> Search Engine (closes: #956012). The reason for the change goes as stated in the official package update announcement.Ĭhange default search engine to DuckDuckGo for privacy reasons. You can see the decision was not taken in any hurry, as the maintainers took more than two years to close the bug report. It all started when bug report #956012 was filed in April 2020, stating to use DuckDuckGo as the default search engine for the Chromium package. However, Debian is going to use DuckDuckGo as the default search engine for Chromium.

It is also preferred by many Linux users as it provides almost the same features as Google Chrome.Įarlier, Chromium used Google as the default search engine in Debian. Chromium is the open source project upon which Google has built its Chrome web browser. While Firefox is still the default web browser in Debian, you can find the Chromium browser in the repositories. Goolag suite).An anonymous reader quotes a story from the Linux/Open Source news site It’s FOSS: I don’t think it performs worse for me on sites which aren’t specifically tailored to Chrome (e.g. The difference between Brave and DuckDuckGo can be seen by the features they provide. On Firefox performing worse, I’d love to see some useful benchmarks. Both Brave and DuckDuckGo are privacy browsers, they have been built on the Chromium Open source, also the base of Google Chrome, but provide the user with a lot of privacy browsers. They serve their purpose well, but their purpose doesn’t seem to be what you’re looking for. This surely does not make their services worse.

If you’re used to this, switching to DDG or another privacy-centric engine which does not store cookies or track your browser fingerprint and instead serve fairly non-personal results, will of course be quite a different experience. Since you don’t seem to value privacy, and are using Chrome, I’d assume your results are at this point highly personal since Goolags entire business model revolves around tracking you. In addition, whether a search engine is better or worse seems highly subjective. Why would anyone bother with that, when I’m sure Chrome allows switching this in its settings? If you think the point of Ungoogled Chromium is to offer a chrome fork with DDG as its search engine you’re off the mark by quite a bit. Google search engine is also better than duckduckgo so there’s no point in using ungoogled chromium. It’s 100% faster than firefox in all the benchmarks i run and I use sync so it doesn’t matter for my workflow.

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