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by amelius 3140 days ago
Still, Firefox could automatically switch to e.g. Duckduckgo whenever the user is in incognito mode.
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Yoric 3140 days ago
I love the idea. Would you mind mind filing a bug on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/?
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nkantar 3140 days ago
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1411340
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SkyMarshal 3140 days ago
One more idea - any chance you guys are making a Firefox Focus for the desktop? It's great on mobile, would love a desktop version too!
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deftturtle 3138 days ago
It's just a content blocker + private browsing. Can get same functionality on desktop with private browsing and some ad blocker
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SkyMarshal 3129 days ago
Plus tab functionality removed, hence the name "focus".
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Yoric 3139 days ago
(I should add that, while I work at Mozilla this is my personal view, not Mozilla's official view, yada, yada)
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Skylled 3140 days ago
Their privacy-focused mobile browser, Firefox Focus, defaults to DDG.
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oatmealsnap 3140 days ago
That's a great idea, along with a message explaining why.
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talmand 3140 days ago
Well, they could, but I would assume a contract with Google would prevent that.
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luckystarr 3140 days ago
Could. We don't know what's in this contract.
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s17n 3140 days ago
Pretty sure Google doesn't circumvent incognito so what's the point?
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fenwick67 3140 days ago
Google certainly tracks people by their IP address, so your privacy is lesser with Google as your search engine than DDG.
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amelius 3140 days ago
Not only that, but it also raises awareness of private search engines with the general audience.
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s17n 3140 days ago
Are you sure? I thought they didn't do this.
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yuhong 3140 days ago
Though keep in mind it dates back to 2004.
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