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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 132 points 1 year ago (39 children)

But Weinberg testified that getting users to switch from Google was complicated, requiring as many as 30 to 50 steps to change defaults on all their devices, whereas the process could be shortened to just one click on each device.

Full disclosure, been using Duck Duck Go for a while but...

30 to 50 steps? On a Samsung it's one click from the address bar to select a search engine and then another to select Duck, Google, yahoo, or bing.

The way it's worded they're adding steps for like 10 devices together.

And for it to be a single click, all the options would have to display every time you click the address bar, which would make it look like a 90s web browser.

I'm all about Duck, but that reeks of bullshit because they know most politicians don't know as much about the internet as a 9 year old does.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

My Samsung phone automatically reverts my favourite browser to the Samsung browser all the time without asking.

[–] Dawn@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting, I'm using an s20fe for around 3 years now, and haven't had it happen once, was using an a50 before that, and don't remember it happening there either

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have an S20 regular and it does it constantly. It's annoying.

[–] Dawn@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] dditty@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah my last few phones were Samsungs, same with my parents and friends and none of us have ever had that issue. In the US

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