@samvarma@fosstodon.orgThis is a bigger deal than people may think. I've often wondered how much my life (as a fluent tri lingual) has been impoverished by all my tech interactions being in English by default. Especially search!
For example, I want a search engine that seeks across languages and finds me the top results in any language that I have told it I can speak.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialEmail: the EU Parliament plans to replace Google with the French search engine Qwant as the default search tool on its computers, seeking digital sovereignty (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/european-parliament-ditches-google-for-french-…
@cazfi@social.linux.pizzaI don't fully understand why firefox provides option to have ecosia as the default search engine in some limited countries only. Anyway, I now set up a plugin to do the same on my main computer.
https://blog.ecosia.org/ecosia-firefox-switch/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFiling: OpenAI petitions the UK CMA to include AI chatbots with search function in Google's mandated default search engine choice screen for Chrome and Android (James Titcomb/Telegraph)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/03/23…
@jonquark@mastodon.org.ukOh no... In playing with altermative search engines I installed this firefox extension in my mobile browser:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/qwant
Which I think is a malicious version of the real one (which didn't show up in my search as it's not e…
