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[-] MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

At this point I’ve been using DDG for 7 years as my main search engine. It’s gotten better while Google has become a joke.

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Can confirm. I didn't think it'd be like that but it do be like that. DDG gang, where you at.

[-] TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I switched to DDG recently due to the manifest v3 changes and AI junk and have been really liking it. It feels like what Google used to be when it was good.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

You didn't switch to FF due to the manifest v3 changes? You switched search engines?

[-] TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Hah yeah I guess I combined those confusingly. It was both of those things hitting around the same time, I switched to FF and DDG.

[-] yokonzo@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Can't wait until they enshittify, the way I see it, everything will eventually, even Lemmy. It's up to us to not settle too hard in one place

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The fact Lemmy is open source and federated makes it almost impossible to enshittify. What are you gonna do, show ads? Third party clients are first class citizens here

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

it still can enshittify, but we can save it with the help of git and the fork button

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Unless corporations start ruling it somehow, it really can't enshittify.

[-] oldfart@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago

One scenario is that normies join en masse and influencers/marketers follow them, and the quality of conversation goes to zero like on all big platforms. You can't solve this with software.

[-] vonbaronhans@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

So that's "getting shittier" but not "enshittification". The latter is explicitly a profit-motive driven phenomenon, coined by Cory Doctorow in 2023. Here's the original post he made about it: https://doctorow.medium.com/tiktoks-enshittification-bb3f5df91979

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They get a large enough audience for disinformation campaigns

Once you see people start defending Russia it’s over

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Once you see people start defending Russia it’s over

If that's what you are looking for, the .ml server has you covered already...

[-] dukethorion@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

So, you're saying Bing got better.

[-] tb_@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

DDG does add their own spice on to – or so they claim, and Bing doesn't have bangs so I'd never want to use it.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Personally I just use the better in-browser feature instead of bangs

[-] tb_@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Fair. I could with Firefox, but I'm too lazy to configure all of that for myself.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Fortunately it takes like 2 minutes.

[-] tb_@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

But doesn't work on mobile

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