Ask confirmation before EWW sends region to a search engine

With 'eww-search-words' (by default bound to 'M-s M-w') a user
can type in some search terms and get back the results of a web
search from a predefined search engine.  If a region is selected,
'eww-search-words' will use that for the web search instead of
prompting the user.
In its current form, 'eww-search-words' presents a security and
usability problem.  It is relatively too easy to mistakenly
launch the function and, if a region of text is selected, have
potentially sensitive data sent out to a third-party service.
This commit changes the search function's default behaviour so
that explicit confirmation is required before a region is sent
to a search engine.  The behaviour can be adjusted via the
newly-introduced 'eww-search-confirm-send-region' variable,
which is set to true by default.
* lisp/net/eww.el (eww-search-confirm-send-region): Add.
(eww-search-words): Update default 'eww-search-words' behaviour
so as to ask confirmation before sending the region to a search
engine.  (Bug#74218)

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