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icecat-52.3.0-gnu1 includes Google in search engines

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From: ng0 <ng0 <at> infotropique.org>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>, ng0 <ng0 <at> infotropique.org>, 28479 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28479: icecat-52.3.0-gnu1 includes Google in search engines
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 09:06:09 +0000

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Ludovic Courtès transcribed 1.3K bytes:
> Hello,
> 
> ng0 <ng0 <at> infotropique.org> skribis:
> 
> > Mark H Weaver transcribed 0.4K bytes:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> ng0 <ng0 <at> infotropique.org> writes:
> >> 
> >> > Is this an upstream bug? Should we patch to remove Google?
> >> >
> >> > I've just compared a completely new system (and Icecat profile)
> >> > with my default profile, both include Google in search engines.
> >> >
> >> > There's also Bing and Yahoo, I'm not sure if all 3 were present
> >> > before this version.
> >> 
> >> Why would it be considered a bug to give users the convenient option to
> >> use those search engines?
> >> 
> >>        Mark
> >
> > For example the branch of firefox which Parabola distributes
> > makes changes not to default to Google. People rarely
> > change defaults, so we should give the option to use Google
> > but default to for example searx.me or duckduckgo.com.
> 
> I sort-of agree with both of you.   :-)
> 
> Using a centralized search engine, be it Google or DuckDuckGo or even
> searx.me, is a threat to privacy.  Of course the dominating position of
> Google makes it worse than the others, but let’s not pretend the others
> are white as snow.
> 
> Besides, this is a discussion to have with IceCat upstream IMO.  There’s
> nothing Guix-specific here.  So I’d close this one as “wontfix”.
> 
> WDYT?
> 
> Ludo’.
> 

I agree. I'll take this upstream soon.
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