Apple has a very limited list of search engines that it allows.
There are a couple of extensions that do reddirect, but that doesn’t even prevent the request from going to the Search Engine defined in settings.
Alternatively, I can try a different browser, but they are objectively worse, and none of them can use extensions.
I’m wondering if I’m the only one stressed with this or has everyone found a alternative that I don’t know.
This looks like proper monopolistic behaviour btw
Kagi has its own extension that redirects search terms to itself, works most of the time. Unfortunately they’re paid and in the US. I did find an extension for safari that should do the same thing for your use case though. https://mshibanami.github.io/redirect-web/