DuckDuckGo is the most private and honest searchengine out there and therefor it is a logic choice for a Fairphone as default searchengine. Yet I can not select it, it is just not in the short list of google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com.
It is already my startpage, but is there a way to set DuckduckGo as default search engine.
Assuming you’re talking about the default browser: can’t it be added by going to duckduckgo, clicking the ‘add to xxxx’ banner, and then following the instructions? For example, on chrome* it will show up as an option under ‘recently visited’…
*If you’re concerned about privacy, don’t use Chrome.
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Me and also Edward Snowden tend to state it is Startpage (Ixquick). Based on Google search results but assuring full privacy protection…anyway
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Actually, something open source is the most private, since you can actually see the code. You don’t have to take the word of a founder who has a history of selling user data (cough, cough Gabriel Weinberg and Names Database). YaCy searx or Jive Search
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Yep, having the source code at hand makes it easy to recognize any misleading modification.
YaCy looks interesting and seems to work similar to the TOR network. But the drawback which I see here is having single compromised peers. On a quick glance I could not find out how any protection mechanism against this is established.
Thanks for your answers. Especially startpage is in the picture now. But the original question is not answered: I still have no way to change the standard search engine to any other than the given 4: google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com.
To change the default search engine I press in the browser:
- Hamburger menu
- Settings (instelloingen)Advanced (Geavanceerd)
- Set searchengine (Zoekmachine instellen)
That is the screen where I would like to change to 4 to DuckduckGo (and Startpage and Jive Search etc)
Have you tried the suggestion by Johannes? That is, visiting https://duckduckgo.com/ which should offer to install DuckDuckGo as search engine.
Can’t try it myself because all my phones already have DuckDuckGo and as far as I remember above procedure was how I got it.
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Please tell us which browser you are talking about.
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