Request: New Search Engine: Mullvad Leta

[ingroxd]

Good morning, as title describes, is it possible to add Mullvad Leta to the list of the search engines in Vanadium?

After some basic testing I can see this search engine can accept and use a regular GET request like any other search engine with the common URI q=%s. Just to make a quick example we can search for "test test" just using https://leta.mullvad.net/?q=test test.
Accordin to their FAQ, it seems they use the very common url https://leta.mullvad.net/?q=%s.

This search engine supports Brave and Google searches, with the optional flag for cache only search. Filtered searches (country, language and date) are also available.

For these reasons I think it would be a great fit for Vanadium and its users.

I am opening this ticket because I couldn't find this request yet.
Thank you for your time.

[ingroxd]

Good morning, thank you for your prompt evaluation of this request.

Is it possible to have some insight on the rules you follow to decide which search engine you decide to include or not?
Or more broadly what kind of requests you take into account or not.
I think it might be useful for users to know about it to avoid opening further requests in the future.

Thank you for your time.

[thestinger]

We could consider adding it at some point but it's a very low priority.

[Fei1Yang]

It's possible to manually add this search engine to Vanadium (or any other Chromium based browser):

1. Visit the home page of Mullvad Leta (https://leta.mullvad.net/)
2. Manually make a search query that matches the OpenSearch definition (e.g. https://leta.mullvad.net/?q=test)

Normally Chromium can auto discover search engine if the webpage uses the same way to send queries as the OpenSearch definition, but Mullvad Leta uses different HTTP methods in these two. maybe the auto discovery behavior should be documented in the GrapheneOS FAQ so people can add their own search engines themselves?

[ingroxd]

Thank you @Fei1Yang , I figured, eventually (You can also see a deleted part in the history of the issue). Writing it will help others do the same [:

I still think having it available out of the box might be beneficial for users, most of them don't know about its existence.

DuckDuckGo built some momentum before kicking into browsers' list of available search engines and grown even more just after. We continue to use it even if it's known to "lend" user data, which is the main reason I was searching for an alternative.

I guess wel'll wait ¯_(ツ)_/¯