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Google hijacked my browser

Sunny Stallings
Sunny Stallings
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I set Firefox as my browser on my iPhone 8s and Google hijacked my browser and I can’t get rid of it! I do not want to use Google!!!!

How can I get rid of google?

I set Firefox as my browser on my iPhone 8s and Google hijacked my browser and I can’t get rid of it! I do not want to use Google!!!! How can I get rid of google?

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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I'm not sure what you mean by hijacked, but if you don't want Firefox to send searches to Google, you can choose a different default search engine. This article has the steps:

Change your default search engine in Firefox for iOS

On an iPad, I have the option to use Bing or DuckDuckGo (as well as specialized sites). Does one of those work for you?