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[–] givesomefucks 132 points 1 year ago (26 children)

But Weinberg testified that getting users to switch from Google was complicated, requiring as many as 30 to 50 steps to change defaults on all their devices, whereas the process could be shortened to just one click on each device.

Full disclosure, been using Duck Duck Go for a while but...

30 to 50 steps? On a Samsung it's one click from the address bar to select a search engine and then another to select Duck, Google, yahoo, or bing.

The way it's worded they're adding steps for like 10 devices together.

And for it to be a single click, all the options would have to display every time you click the address bar, which would make it look like a 90s web browser.

I'm all about Duck, but that reeks of bullshit because they know most politicians don't know as much about the internet as a 9 year old does.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

How many clicks does it take to change the search on the home screen?

[–] givesomefucks 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I didn't know anyone uses those...

But aren't they widgets? I don't even know if you can change it, you might have to use a different widget

[–] EnglishMobster 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I have a Pixel. The Pixel Launcher that comes stock on the phone has a Google search thing that is not removable except via switching to another launcher. It looks like a widget, but you can't remove it. It exists on every "panel" of the screen, below the app shortcuts.

I do use it quite a bit when making searches, but only because it's there already and can't be removed. If I could remove it, I would.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's supremely useful if you want to use Google search. If you don't on the other hand... 🥲

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