And combining the two was a good idea: the browser can detect when you're entering a URL.
In any case the real point they made was that it was a way to get traffic and hook people to their search engine, showing ads in our faces.
Whether or not they do so in practice is another question of course and there are well publicized examples of them failing.
If what you’re saying was correct then preventing most phishing emails would simply be a matter of “educating users”. I believe at scale that is an impossible task.
If I set my default search engine to Mojeek and type in “spotify” will they not suggest spotify.com? If I type in “sp<tab><enter>” is that taking away my agency from potentially going to spootify.com instead?
I am game for a conversation on the power of defaults and monopolies but that’s very different from saying suggestions are bad because people should just remember everything.
treetalker•1w ago