“There’s a setting on your phone and web browser that Google is desperate to keep you from discovering.”
Does anyone know *what* that is? And how to change it?
Settings->Search Engine. On both Linux and Android Chrome +derivatives. Probably Windows, too. The fact that they find it hard to change says more about the WAPO than anything else.
News you can’t use.
Default search engine. It’s not that hard to change.
Here’s a good article on how to change the default search engine on your Android phone:
https://www.howtogeek.com/710307/how-to-change-the-default-search-engine-on-android/
Easy to follow instructions.
I would like to find out the same thing, but the article is behind a pay wall.