So as you may know, i am a guy mostly focused on privacy. Basically, insead of google i use SearXNG. (Privacy focused search engine) However, when i went to change the default search engine in safari, there was no option to add a custom search engine.
This really pissed me off. So how come Apple allows changing default browsers in the EU, but not search engines?
Kagi offers a safari plugin which intercepts a search request and sends it to Kagi instead. Works great.
They didn’t want to use Kagi though.
Well they could. It’s part of the value proposition.
It also means someone could make a generalized search redirect safari extension without needing to wait for Apple
Edit: just checked looks like something like it exists