[nsmartt]

I had a discussion about this with someone on the Mozilla IRC, and the argument seems to be that users still have the option to add DDG on their own, so it's not being treated as optional. Users still have the option of switching.

I'm not a big fan of this argument, and I argued that DDG, or another privacy conscious search engine (though DDG is the best I've used), would be very much in line with Mozilla goals. I'm sure many users are still unaware of Google's practices (whether those practices are inherently harmful or not), and exposing DDG as a search option would be a means of raising awareness.

I don't quite understand the rationale behind it.