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Has this reduced search market share for Google in Europe? I suspect not since Google has a high brand loyalty. In fact this complaint may make Google even more profitable by not allowing phone manufacturers to charge the for default placement. I believe it will likely kill the main revenue stream for Mozilla as well.



How are tiny names like Info.com and PrivacyWall are able to pay for slots over DDG? PrivacyWall has like 3 people on LinkedIn. https://www.android.com/choicescreen-winners/


DDG complains they can't win the auction:

search engines who squeeze money out of every last drop of people's personal information (including ISPs and arbitrage players that will participate in next year's auctions) are easily able to outbid search engines like us that respect people's privacy

https://spreadprivacy.com/search-preference-menu-auctions/




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