Hello, ng0 <n...@infotropique.org> skribis:
> Mark H Weaver transcribed 0.4K bytes: >> Hi, >> >> ng0 <n...@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’.