The change is applicable for Chromium version 104 or later as per the announcement. Set a different search engine under Settings -> Search Engine (closes: #956012). Change default search engine to DuckDuckGo for privacy reasons. The reason for the change goes as stated in the official package update announcement. You can see the decision was not taken in any hurry, as the maintainers took more than two years to close the bug report. It all started when bug report #956012 was filed in April 2020, stating to use DuckDuckGo as the default search engine for the Chromium package. However, Debian is going to use DuckDuckGo as the default search engine for Chromium.
It is also preferred by many Linux users as it provides almost the same features as Google Chrome.Įarlier, Chromium used Google as the default search engine in Debian. While Firefox is still the default web browser in Debian, you can find the Chromium browser in the repositories.Ĭhromium is the open source project upon which Google has built its Chrome web browser. Its focus on privacy is why many Linux users prefer using it over Google. DuckDuckGo is a private search engine that doesn't track its user the same way Google does.
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