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Has anyone figured out how to add a search engine option to the list Apple offers?

DuckDuckGo prioritizes MSN’s lifted pages. I need original pages. This MSN crap is unacceptable.

  • hedgehog@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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    23 days ago

    It’s a bit unclear what you mean by “Apple” - I’m assuming you mean Safari on both Mac and iOS.

    The search engine I use is SearxNg. On Firefox on Mac it was pretty easy to add.

    To use it in Safari, I installed the Keyword Search extension from the App Store. It has the option to set a search engine as the default if you don’t use a keyword, so I did that. This works in both Mac and on iOS / iPadOS.

    There are other Safari extensions that do similar things, like Customize Search Engine (free). Kagi has an extension that can make Kagi the default search engine, for example (it doesn’t appear that there’s an equivalent for Startpage, though). I haven’t used anything other than Keyword Search for this, though.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    23 days ago

    Apple users

    I mean, if the only constraint is that it be on an Apple platform, and not specifically for Safari, I imagine just use a browser that lets you choose your search engine. Firefox can, and I’m sure that there are also Chrome-based browsers out there that do so as well.

      • bamboo@lemm.eeEnglish
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        23 days ago

        Huh? Custom web engines aren’t allowed on iOS, Firefox’s included. All iOS browsers are just UIs on top of Safari’s engine.

        Edit: idk about the EU though

        • RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          23 days ago

          They are based off Firefox for IOS which uses WebKit, but they are still based on the browser like Edge which is based on chromium vs Flakon which uses blink but not the rest chromium

          • hedgehog@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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            23 days ago

            They are based off Firefox for IOS which uses WebKit, but they are still based on the browser like Edge which is based on chromium vs Flakon which uses blink but not the rest chromium

            I’ve reread this like 5 times and still have no clue what you’re trying to say.

            The person you replied to was technically incorrect - other browsers aren’t UIs on top of Safari, but (outside the EU) they’re all limited to the same browser rendering engine Safari uses, Webkit.

            This means that other rendering engines - namely Firefox’s Gecko and Chromium’s Blink, as well as niche engines like Ladybird’s - are unavailable there (outside the EU).

            They are based off Firefox for IOS

            This is not generally true of browsers on iOS, and might not be true of any.

            Flakon

            I didn’t know what this was at first - apparently this was a typo for “Falkon.”

            which uses blink

            The browser rendering engine used by Chromium browsers is Blink, which was forked from Webkit over a decade ago, but I’m not aware of any non-Chromium browsers that use it… including Falkon, which appears to leverage QtWebEngine, which itself uses Chromium.

            but they are still based on the browser like Edge

            By “based on” do you mean “uses the same branding as and is loosely inspired by?” Because I highly doubt that the iOS codebase is based off the desktop codebase for many Chromium or Firefox-based browsers… they may share some code and assets but I doubt they get to share much more than that.