I just updated (I use arch btw) and had to reboot WaterFox. The default search engine got changed to 1.org and StartPage no longer shows up as a default option even. Has this happened to anybody else?

  • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zipEnglish
    221·
    1 hour ago

    Never heard of it. Nice domain. Claims to donate to charity every time you search. Makes 3rd party requests to

    cookielaw.org  
cloudfront.net  
googletagmanager.com  
unpkg.com

    Compared to DDG-noAI: zero 3rd party requests.

    Waterfox believe in charity so much, they made some sort of deal with a company that is making money with the idea of helping by making internet searches?

    BTW, I use Librewolf.

    • gopher@programming.dev
      3·
      1 hour ago

      1.org:

      We and our 1011 partners store and access personal data, like browsing data or unique identifiers, on your device.

      Seems like they would many more 3rd party requests than those four.

      • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zipEnglish
        1·
        57 minutes ago

        These are cookies. dropping cookies for 1011 partners does not require accessing their domains at that moment.

        A 3rd-party request means that when a client (browser) loads a page, that page wants to load content from other domains. Strictly speaking, DDG does that too (see screenshot below): it loads extra content from one of its _sub_domains.

        Still, good catch. Where’d you find that?

        And btw it’s of course perfectly possible that DDG does that too; I never meant to claim absolute superiority for it. Just for comparison. It’s my default search engine right now but I should try something better I guess.

        • gopher@programming.dev
          1·
          19 minutes ago

          The number of partners is in the cookie banner from onetrust when opening the site (maybe location dependent?). I’m aware it doesn’t mean they necessarily are making 3rd party http requests (feels likely though?), but when a site has such a ridiculous amount of partners, it is a huge red flag.

          But it’s not surprising, if they donate to charity, for each search request, they have to generate income somehow…

    • refalo@programming.dev
      12·
      7 hours ago

      Compared to DDG-noAI: zero 3rd party requests.

      No need when they’re already selling your search habits from the backend.