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Submitted by David_Hedlund on Tue, 07/16/2013 - 19:24

abrowser list PRISM search engines

Project:Trisquel
Version:6.0
Component:Packages
Category:feature request
Priority:critical
Assigned:Unassigned
Status:by design
Description

As opposed to startpage; Mass survelliance search engines Bing, Google, and Yahoo! are all listed as default search engines in abrowser 21.0

Please read this link to better understand the risk of PRISM: https://startpage.com/eng/prism-program-exposed.html

quidam:
Mon, 01/12/2015 - 21:03
Status:active» by design

The default search engine is DDG through ssl. Any search engine can track your queries, so any change beyond setting a better default wouldn't improve much. Still, I'll be adding startpage to the list in future versions.