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[โ€“] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This means Google isn't paying the millions to be the default anymore??

Seems to be an awful news then, that money was useful for development and a default is trivial to change

[โ€“] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 3 points 7 months ago

I didn't see a line that suggests they're putting Qwant as default, only that they're making it available as a search provider, just as DuckDuckGo and others are.

They say:

Did you know you could choose the search engine of your choice right from your Firefox URL bar?