There’s a setting on your phone and web browser that Google is desperate to keep you from discovering. How desperate? In 2021 alone, Google paid Apple, Samsung and others $26.3 billion to keep it buried.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
Google spent $26 billion to hide this phone setting from you
Google goes to great lengths to be your default search engine and keep you from switching. Here’s why you should make your own choice.
Analysis by Geoffrey A. Fowler
Updated November 8, 2023 at 10:32 a.m. EST|Published November 8, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EST