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icecat-52.3.0-gnu1 includes Google in search engines

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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
To: ng0 <ng0 <at> infotropique.org>
Cc: 28479 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28479: icecat-52.3.0-gnu1 includes Google in search engines
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 13:12:10 -0400

ng0 <ng0 <at> infotropique.org> writes:

> Mark H Weaver transcribed 0.4K bytes:
>> 
>> 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.

Among the changes that GNU IceCat makes to Firefox ESR: it makes
DuckDuckGo the default search engine.  Last I checked, that was indeed
the case for our IceCat package.  Do you have reason to believe
otherwise?

> People rarely change defaults, so we should give the option to use
> Google but default to for example searx.me or duckduckgo.com.

Agreed, and I think that's exactly what IceCat does.  Please let me know
if you think I'm mistaken about that.

      Mark

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