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Never kick an underdog even if the underdog is directly funded by google, I should imagine google had a large part to play in these changes. But anyway thanks for the link

I've also come off and confrontational with my stance, its hard not to be when a large portion of replys have been dancing around the stated issue of senseless removal of a key setting

If that suits your needs, then sure, but personally, I'd choose a tablet PC for its versatility, broader app selection, and to avoid the challenges posed by Google's APIs within what I see as a problematic ecosystem. I appreciate my degoogled phone, but it's still quite common to encounter apps that heavily rely on Google's services

But it was much easier lol and logical

Addons, I would avoid as they make it easier to fingerprints and also its the long way around, if all I want to do is add a URL like google.com or bing then why should I add an extension

Sorry I miss typed, would it make sense to of left the custom search engine option in settings whilst also adding the ad from search bar option?

And why the hell would I use an add-on for a web address? My point is that the search engine feature is gone from settings

I don't mean this as an us against them statement, I wouldn't use services hosted in the uk either

Yep its a sorry state of affairs and ass backwards way to circumvent anti trust laws.

So its an agitator, will it directly communicate with googelz bing ddg? Or does it use an IP hiding techniques?

I've heard of searx never used it though