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    • athlonite
      athlonite @burnout426 last edited by

      @burnout426 yeah that's why I'm now going to get rid of Opera and install Vivaldi as they'll let me do it I don't like google never have and I prefer a search engine that does keep a record of everything I look up

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      • sgunhouse
        sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

        Sort of ... if you were in Russia then Yandex would be the only choice there.. We've had some Ukrainian users who didn't want Yandex there, and I've told them that if they edit their location to say "US" instead they'd change to Google - so naturally the reverse must hold as well. If you really want the Russians to see your searches rather than Google. 👀

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        • james8
          james8 last edited by

          Instead of been abrupt and saying "As already said several times, you can't change it." Could just say we done a deal with Google.

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          • athlonite
            athlonite @sgunhouse last edited by athlonite

            @sgunhouse but I don't wish to use either Yandex or Google I'd like to use a search provider who doesn't feel the need to keep a record of everywhere I go and everything I search for like DuckDuckGo

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            • james8
              james8 last edited by

              That's exactly what I wanted to change it to! DuckDuckGo. Looks like a deal was done so you can't change it! Due to as mentioned above you can change it in Vivaldi. You make your own conclusions! What has happened here!

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              • y0y0
                y0y0 last edited by

                At least I found out how to eliminate the spyware box from Speed Dial entirely. Would have been nice to change it though.

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                • leocg
                  leocg Moderator Volunteer @james8 last edited by

                  @james8 No, I couldn't because I don't work for Opera and I don't know about their commercial agreements.
                  And even if I worked for Opera, I don't know if I could tell about it.

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                  • athlonite
                    athlonite @leocg last edited by

                    @leocg then if you don't know why did you write a faq about it

                    leocg MODERATOR Dec 1, 2018, 2:48 PM
                    How to change the search engine in start page

                    You can't change it but you can hide it in settings.

                    shouldn't you as a moderator on Opera's forums know this sort of thing for a fact

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                    • leocg
                      leocg Moderator Volunteer @athlonite last edited by leocg

                      @athlonite What one thing has to do with the other?

                      Many people were asking about how to change the search engine in speed dial, so I added the question to the FAQ with the answer for it.

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                      • leocg
                        leocg Moderator Volunteer @athlonite last edited by

                        @athlonite And no, I shouldn't. Moderators in forums are usually regular users with some power that help keeping the forum running organized, they don't need to know everything that runs in the company, when the forum is about one or about a product made by one.

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