Set any defaults you like; your user base is plenty competent to change them (and will probably stay that way, given the nature of the browser :) ). Of course, that may mean the income from setting such a default will be severely diminished. I guess if no one uses it, you can always change it back (or to something else) later.
Brent On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 06:31:03PM +0200, Florian Bruhin wrote: > Hi, > > I got contacted by the Ecosia search engine a few days ago: > https://www.ecosia.org/ > > They seem to get their results via Bing mostly (DuckDuckGo gets them > from Yahoo and in some regions Yandex/Bing) and apparently use (part > of) their ad income to plant trees: > https://info.ecosia.org/what > > I was asked whether I was interested in using it as a default search > engine for qutebrowser (instead of duckduckgo), and I'd get half of > the ad income generated by qutebrowser searches in return. They claim > this is about 2000 EUR per month for a partner of similar size - > though I'm currently asking for clarification as I'm not sure their > predictions about qutebrowser users are accurate ;) > > I'd like to hear some more opinions about this - if there's really > some four-figure income associated with this I could probably continue > working part-time on qutebrowser after my study (i.e. in about three > years) which would be a nice thing and help qutebrowser a lot. > > On the other hand, while Ecosia seems quite cool, it seems to lack > some functionality (like instant answers) compared to duckduckgo. > > What do you think? > > Florian > > -- > http://www.the-compiler.org | [email protected] (Mail/XMPP) > GPG: 916E B0C8 FD55 A072 | http://the-compiler.org/pubkey.asc > I love long mails! | http://email.is-not-s.ms/
