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therezahernandez
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I downloaded Firefox to get away from Google, but Google is the default search engine. Can't Google collect data from my searches? Then why do I need Firefox? (Please don't suggest that I switch to DuckDuckGo because I find that search engine problematic.)

I downloaded Firefox to get away from Google, but Google is the default search engine. Can't Google collect data from my searches? Then why do I need Firefox? (Please don't suggest that I switch to DuckDuckGo because I find that search engine problematic.)

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Paul
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Hi

Firefox for Android is a web browser that uses Google as the default search provider.

This support article should help you to change the default search provider in Firefox for Android:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/manage-my-default-search-engines-firefox-android