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The final push to start using Firefox over Chrome on Android might finally be thanks to the enormous selection of add-ons (Firefox's version of extensions) coming out next month. Chrome doesn't offer native support for extensions in its mobile app. Also, better security.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes, I remember hearing something about this.

I wonder if there's a way to federate a search engine. I wonder what that would even look like. Federating indices/results but allowing users to search from whatever instance they want? Maybe?

Maybe that's an okay use case for federation or maybe not, but clearly we need to move away from centralised search engines because they always get corrupted by greed.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

This exists already, it's called Searxng. The instances don't federate with each other necessarily but rather with actual search engines. But each instance of searxng is hosted by a different person. and so you might notice different resaults on one server vs the next. https://searx.space/