Hi I recommend https://metager.de/en or the developer version https://metager3.de/en . The SuMa e.V., a non-commercial german organisation (gemeinnütziger, eingetragener Verein [1]) runs and develops the search-engine. The source is available under the terms of AGPL3 [2].
Greets Jens Korte [1] https://suma-ev.de/ [2] https://gitlab.metager3.de/ Am Sun, 28 Jan 2018 12:38:35 +0100 schrieb Marco van Hulten <[email protected]>: > Hello— > > When I installed IceCat on Parabola, I got the privacy conscious La > Quadrature as the default default search engine*. When I installed > IceCat on GuixSD, I got Google as the default default search engine. > > What is the upstream default search engine? > > Should GNU distributions set this themselves? > > If the latter is the case, it would still be a good idea if the > upstream default default search engine were a privacy conscious > search engine. > > > Related to this issue, a bit of browsing through the files at > https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/ ** shows that the Google search > engine was removed in icecat-31.2.0 but not anymore in icecat-52.0.2. > That is probably fine (and discussed before on this mailinglist), but > the default should not fall back to Google. > > Thanks! > > —Marco > > * With this I mean the default search engine that is selected when > IceCat is first start, i.e. there is no ~/.mozilla/ when starting > IceCat. > ** These appear builds, not source code as mentioned elsewhere > > (https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/265828/cant-find-gnu-icecat-or-firefox-source-code) > > -- > http://gnuzilla.gnu.org -- http://gnuzilla.gnu.org
