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Peace's avatar

Yandex.com I am NOT a technical wiz - someone on C&C directed me to Yandex as a search engine and it really opens up a whole new world. I haven't been able to figure out how to make Yandex my default, but I simply go to "Yandex.com" and it pops up with the cursor in the search box title "Finds Everything" - and it gives so many more options than Google or even Duck Duck Go or Swiss Cows.

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Maggie Think of Me's avatar

DDG is owned by Google.

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Sunnydaze's avatar

Thanks! I’ll give that a look too.

So I looked at it. I ended up going into Brave settings. Followed the prompts for search engines. Added a custom search index of Yandex.com and also Brave. I was able to make those default that way. Now when I click to a website “google” isn’t popping up at all. The hesitation that was there stopped. It’s like it was trying to use google so there was a hesitation before going to whatever web site. It was doing that for every search. I think this may have done it. Maybe try that. It’ll be interesting to try this for a few days and see.

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Peace's avatar

Hallelujah! Just made Yandex my Default Serach Engine:) Proving once again that helping others pays off:) Thanks, Sunnydaze!!

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Sunnydaze's avatar

That’s great!

One thing I noticed is when I am in my email for C&C and I click to reply to a comment the search bar shows google.com and then goes to coffeeandcovid comments. 🤔 I wonder if that’s for using a gmail account for the email?

But since I followed those steps it’s not happening with anything else anymore. Just from within the gmail….

Ok. Just went directly to C&C without using gmail and it did not use google at all! So it must be because gmail is google crap. Weird though because I thought I removed “google” from my phone. So 🙌 🙌 that we are figuring this out!! I’m thinking I’ll change to a proton mail acct. I see lots of people switching to that too.

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Peace's avatar

Proton has definitely crossed my mind!!

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