#4902: Change the default search engine in TBB ---------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: phobos | Owner: mikeperry Type: enhancement | Status: closed Priority: Medium | Milestone: TorBrowserBundle 2.3.x-stable Component: Firefox Patch | Version: Issues | Severity: Blocker | Resolution: worksforme Keywords: | Actual Points: 1 MikePerry201204 | Parent ID: | Points: 1 Reviewer: | Sponsor: ---------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
Comment (by cypherpunks): Replying to [comment:39 heyjoe]: > > Correlate isn't that simple. > > I am not saying that it is simple per se but the more data there is, the easier it becomes to correlate it. Though I am unaware of starpage's infrastructure and relations, still we are all aware that Amazon is not our friend. Ideally we would have a decentralized search but AFAIK such is not available ATM. > > I don't see the gains from such a complex maneuver to be honest. > > Which is a complex maneuver? The complex maneuver of engineering a correlation mechanism that identifies unique users with their searches with low false positives and with only timing (and no fingerprinting) and content as input. It's probably impossible. > Setting another default search engine is easy. Though I am not familiar with any legal factors that may be preventing this (as in an expressed disagreement by Startpage). It's not easy when there are no alternatives (searx will get overwhelmed and their infrastructure won't be able to handle the load, bing, qwant, baidu and yahoo searches are really poor quality wise). It's not a legal problem, Startpage puts up captchas to Tor users when it was enabled as default not so long ago IIRC. (Can't find the relevant comments.) -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/4902#comment:40> Tor Bug Tracker & Wiki <https://trac.torproject.org/> The Tor Project: anonymity online
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