That’s the official definition now that the Israeli government has been pushing for almost a year, to try and shield zionists from legitimate criticism. They’re trying to muddy the waters, and what it’s doing is making every Jew worldwide a target, and when there are attacks of any kind, they claim anti-Semitism… Making it impossible to tell anymore what’s actually anti-Semetic in general and what’s intended to be anti-Israel.

Not only the setting off, but any sort of behind the scenes stuff related to it disabled as well. No automatic updating, no background processes to “keep it ready, just in case”. Do that when it’s enabled.

It’s for the default search, but it also has the side benefit of ensuring a secondary browser with decent market share that’s not Chromium-based they can point to claiming they’re not a monopoly.