DuckDuckGo CEO says Google kills competition through phone deals that make it hard for users to switch search engines

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DuckDuckGo CEO says Google kills competition through phone deals that make it hard for users to switch search engines: ‘It’s too many steps’
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Yeah, that was my experience as well as a Pixel user. That said, it didn't take too long to just finally switch to Firefox, Nova launcher, and Duck Duck Go. Mostly painless, and I'm over 40 👴

I've done all but the launcher. The gestures became super choppy with another launcher (nova).

I have put a FF search bar above the Google one and I just ignore it.

I personally use kiss launcher, bit of a different paradigm to regular ones but i like it

I've been using Niagara on my pixel 7. It takes a bit to get used to, but is so much cleaner. Add that with a browser other than chrome, and duckduckgo. Works pretty well.