[Ferret7446]

1. That sounds like an Apple issue, not a Google issue

2. That sounds perfectly reasonable. Google doesn't want people to bundle other things for users who want to install just a different default search (and not "your hotbar" like the Netscape days).

3. I'm not sure what you're talking about, is Chrome on Linux default search configured differently than Chrome on Windows?

[currysausage]

> That sounds like an Apple issue

True. But guess who’s paying Apple good money in order to remain the default search engine. Who knows what else might be part of this deal?

[fallingknife]

Everybody who has read the contract. What are you alleging?

[ClumsyPilot]

Antitrust breach, market manipulation, collusion, wage suppression - basically the usual stuff they do.

Oh, and when they agreed to suppress wages through an anti-poaching agreement, was that explicit in the contract?

https://fortune.com/2015/09/03/koh-anti-poach-order/

[fallingknife]

WTF does that have to do with the default search agreement? You just listed a bunch of unrelated bad things companies did.

[ClumsyPilot]

We are discussing if the agreement is in good faith or possibly it’s there to cover up nefarious intent.

[Ferret7446]

Moving the goalposts? This is about the list of allowed baked in search engines, not what the default is.

[asddubs]

>2. That sounds perfectly reasonable. Google doesn't want people to bundle other things for users who want to install just a different default search (and not "your hotbar" like the Netscape days).

I suspect it's the other way around. They don't want random extensions to mess with your search engine because they get kickbacks from yahoo or whatever. Though if the extension is named for a search engine I don't think it should apply.