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Why is Apple blocking Qwant Search?

I need advice on how to Qwantify Mojave's Safari browser. Curiously, right-click add "Qwant" to dictionary and next day everywhere I spell out Qwant in this request for advice, Qwant still gets a nasty red dotted underline. Other story? Following the San Bernardino incident (though it is true that backdoor is not required, and backdoor shortcuts do 'tunnel' security analysis of digital communications), Apple has caved, in Region 3 Americas. For the watchful, this resulted in a major downgrade of Google quality. Google is built into all Region 3 devices, to assist NSA, etcetera. This hopefully helps to civilize Region 3 communities, does nothing to limit fascism (the bane of modern European society, everywhere it goes), and the debate goes on. Name the blame! 'Google' dents every aspect of Region 3 search technology, whatever. Hello Qwant...


Qwant hails from Western Europe, Empires center where Google is shut down with fines it cannot pay. Google is not welcome in Europe. It constipates the colonies. Europeans have devised their own unobtrusive, intelligent search technologies. A popular European search engine is Qwant. Comparing Google and Qwant is like comparing night and day. Google fetches 1 point of view on a search topic and floods us with a bored-to-death nightmare of corporate U.S. rote repetitions in thousands of search results. Qwant intelligent search determines that there is only 1 result with 3 variations, and provides only 3 results. You can work and study with Qwant. Google's mono flavor suits corporate zombies, and analysis of the competition.


Qwant extension is available for High Sierra, but NSA and Apple Region 3 killed Qwant there, not available for Mojave. So... for intelligent search from Safari address bar, our High Sierra device installations simply install Qwant, and Google disappears. In Mojave, set Qwant as home page )(removing Apple Start Page). Then 1Blocker or similar from AppStore, to block myaccount.google.com, google.com, google.ca, etc. Now address bar searches yield, "... Site Not Found". APPLE... Apple... apple... or is a better mumble NSA... Nsa... nsa... Is Europe establishing the lowest common denominator here, in Region 3? Or is it us? All on our lonesome.


How do we tweak Mojave to make Qwant run from address bar, instead of Google? Simple question?

Mac Pro, 10.14

Posted on Feb 3, 2019 2:01 AM

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Posted on Feb 3, 2019 12:23 PM

There are two kinds of Safari Extensions.


1. Safari Extensions

2. Safari App Extensions


Full details are not available yet.



Safari extensions https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/get-extensions-sfri32508/mac


Get extensions to customize Safari on Mac

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You can install Safari extensions to customize the way your browser works. For example, extensions can help you display social media and news buttons, block content on websites, give you access to features from other apps, and more.


Tip: The Mac App Store is the safest and easiest way to discover and install extensions. The extensions are reviewed by Apple, and they update automatically when “Install app updates” is selected in App Store preferences.

https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/get-extensions-sfri32508/mac



Safari app extensions.        https://safari-extensions.apple.com/


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Safari App Extensions

Learn how Safari app extensions extend the web-browsing experience in Safari by leveraging web technologies and native code.


Overview


A Safari app extension can add new functionality to Safari by reading and modifying webpage content. These capabilites enhance the tools you use, the tasks you can accomplish, and the data you can access in your browser. A Safari app extension is uniquely useful because it can communicate with a native app. Sharing data between an app and Safari lets you integrate app content into Safari or send web data back to the app, enabling a unified experience for a web version and native version of an app


 https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/safari_app_extensions

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Feb 3, 2019 12:23 PM in response to Osiyo

There are two kinds of Safari Extensions.


1. Safari Extensions

2. Safari App Extensions


Full details are not available yet.



Safari extensions https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/get-extensions-sfri32508/mac


Get extensions to customize Safari on Mac

Quoting:

You can install Safari extensions to customize the way your browser works. For example, extensions can help you display social media and news buttons, block content on websites, give you access to features from other apps, and more.


Tip: The Mac App Store is the safest and easiest way to discover and install extensions. The extensions are reviewed by Apple, and they update automatically when “Install app updates” is selected in App Store preferences.

https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/get-extensions-sfri32508/mac



Safari app extensions.        https://safari-extensions.apple.com/


Quoting:

Safari App Extensions

Learn how Safari app extensions extend the web-browsing experience in Safari by leveraging web technologies and native code.


Overview


A Safari app extension can add new functionality to Safari by reading and modifying webpage content. These capabilites enhance the tools you use, the tasks you can accomplish, and the data you can access in your browser. A Safari app extension is uniquely useful because it can communicate with a native app. Sharing data between an app and Safari lets you integrate app content into Safari or send web data back to the app, enabling a unified experience for a web version and native version of an app


 https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/safari_app_extensions

Feb 3, 2019 7:20 AM in response to Yer_Man

QWANT DOES NOT APPEAR IN THE SAFARI EXTENSION GALLERY. Further, where in High Sierra browsing to qwant.com displays the Install Qwant button, in Mojave, Safari does not display this button. Finally, search of qwant.com for "safari extension" "qwant", using a dozen search engines and several browsers found nothing. Following this post thread and your reply, very shortly a search re-run found only Qwant for Firefox for Mojave. Then the following link tunnel located the Safari Extension in no other location than... Safari Extensions Gallery!

((More verbiage for Terrence, "Surprise, surprise" :-)

We do not jump to conclusions, but ask, why is access to Qwant being concealed in multiple searches using multiple browsers (with Google blocked from Safari)... by Apple?


Thanks to whoever, silent hero. This only adds an additional "WHY", to 3 why's that opened this thread. At least for these machine installations in this network in this geolocation, Apple is very much being made to appear like it is with-holding Qwant access.


https://help.qwant.com > using sidebar

https://help.qwant.com/help/qwant-search/ > using sidebar

https://help.qwant.com/help/qwant-search/add-qwant-on-desktop/on-safari/ > using page link

https://help.qwant.com/help/qwant-search/add-qwant-on-desktop/on-safari/#extension > using another page link

that downloads qwant-safari.safariextz that opens Safari preferences Extensions with "Qwant" mysteriously appearing in/ installing from Safari Gallery.


Terrence, this thread's opening question is not answered. Set aside whatever is going on between Apple and this machine, how does one install Qwant to the Safari address bar?


There is no way this network can test the obscure link trail above, aside from another macOS install that again conceals Qwant. Wonder if the link trail works for all Mojave Macs, at least today?

Feb 3, 2019 6:25 PM in response to dominic23

Yes, dominic23. Those would be first steps in any investigation. Thanks for pointing out those wonderful links. They did not advise me how to bypass the Qwant Block described elsewhere, just before Qwant management changed hands 2 years ago, in Europe. Perhaps these are purely corporate matters, that Apple end-users can only comment, across the consumer relations counter. I was going to respond to Terrence. But you will do. Apple is simply portrayed by you as appropriate. Is Apple assistance adequate to overcome the Qwant Block, outlined from a user perspective in this thread?


Apple (knowingly or otherwise) is blocking Qwant, allowing only default Google and Google-owned search engines like the Quacker. Google has been detailed by the EU as a component of the U.S. military complex. The blocking of Qwant is not an expected corporate behavior, outside of the military complex: our public corporations expand horizons, we DO NOT SHRIVEL. Aside from obvious Google management of its hosts and subsidiaries, this suggests government influence. As the U.S. is an aggressive and violent military occupation by Europe of non-Europeans, we can only conclude that Qwant disappearance in Apple at this location results from criminal colonial governance, as interference with expanded corporate horizons. How that criminality gets resolved, is anybody’s guess. The European colony U.S. is currently conducting another sanctioned colonial military coup in yet another American nation, Venezuela (the 4th such now mundane criminal action in a few decades). Apple public market involvement is thus assured. Here, the user perceives the pocketed U.S. government and its military complex are pushing that aspect of this computing environment to criminal warfare, encompassing all search horizons in associated colonial jurisdictions. If errant ‘hack’ is behind the Qwant dump, fair guess that hack source also in an aggressive manner, supports far more trouble in Venezuela. Sociopolitical involvement is not helpful, if Apple is a good corporation, trying to ‘dig out’, and secure legitimate American interest. This observation assumes guilt by association, defining deep cultural roots with supportive institutional structure. Another day... 

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