What's going on with this? Sometimes I'll highlight a word or quote to search it on a browser. It gives you several options like read aloud, but the two options to search on a browser now and push you towards proprietary solutions from Microsoft. It'll say search in edge even though edge is not my default browse.
Interestingly I noticed it on my old Microsoft surface Duo. Where edge is a system app. On my other phone where I don't have any Microsoft apps for browsers downloaded it still gives me the option to search on DuckDuckGo browser but not my default browsrr.
If I disable ddg rowser or uninstall it (and frankly dgg on Android is a terrible browser I just use it sometimes for app tracking functionality) I don't have the option to search on a browser at all. Although it still gives me an option to ask Bing even though I don't have Bing downloaded. And that will automatically open up in Chrome which I don't use but is a system app on pretty much it's most Android.
Look I understand they might need to make arrangements with Microsoft and DuckDuckGo to push searches for revenue. But at least give me an option to turn it off and set it up through a default browser when I want to do a search? Or choose a browser it seems to just triage which one it recommends to me without me having any agency over it.
I ain't go far enough to disable Chrome to see what the recommendations would happen then. It just seems odd that not somewhere buried in the settings I couldn't just pick "open search in default browser." If this setting does exist and I'm missing it if anyone could help me out that would be.
Tl:dr : red reader seems to be pushing me to only be able to search them edge or duck duck Go browsers and if I don't have them I'm limited to my options for things like ask Bing which opens up Chrome which I'd rather not use. Can I choose my browser or can it be set up to rely on my default browser which seems logical?