Apple was interested to replace Google with DuckDuckGo as default option but…

The CEO of privacy-oriented search engine DuckDuckGo said its talks with Apple about a potential contract failed because of Google’s multibillion dollar deals with the smartphone maker, transcripts of a landmark antitrust trial of the Alphabet unit showed.

Gabriel Weinberg, who also founded the company, testified on Sept. 21 on the effect on DuckDuckGo of Google’s $10 billion in annual payments to smartphone makers and others to keep its search engine as the default on computers or mobile devices.

Some of his testimony took place outside of public view.