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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 10 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€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 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?