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soulfirethewolf@lemdro.id ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

You can, but that’s not the point. The idea is to ask users to choose upon opening the app for the first time. It’s an already common statistic that most people never actually change any settings beyond basic personalization. It’s part of why Google spends so much money on setting Google Search as the default engine.

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odelik@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I recently set up Firefox on my Windows PC and it asked me on the FTUE wizard what search engine I wanted to use as my default.

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laughterlaughter@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That’s a weak argument. If Microsoft bundled Edge with Windows and stopped at that, nobody would be complaining about it. The problem is how annoying it is at nagging users to try Edge.

Same with Firefox. If a user changed the search engine, only for Firefox to “forget” that choice one hour later, or if it had popups saying “Hey you have DDG as your search engine. Do you want try Google instead?” [ Yes ] [ Ask me again in an hour ]," then I for sure would have a fucking problem with that.

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