I have SRWare Iron on Ubuntu 20.04, and the browser brings up Bing when I do a search.
Do you get that when you do a search?
Every browser comes out of the box with a default search engine installed. It is usually from someone who is financially supporting them. In your case it is Bing which is Microsoft, so MS is financially supporting that browser project. I have to be honest and say that is already a red flag out of the gate. If MS supports them then MS is getting data in exchange for that support.
You can go into your settings and change your default search engine to something other than Bing like Duck Duck Go. But it will still be suspect because it is probably still connected to MS because they sponsor the base browser project. This is a problem we are ALL having, even the most techy. It is almost impossible to get completely unhooked from all the ancestors like MS, Google, and Mozilla.
yes but you can change it.