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Time to ditch #duckduckgo
(lemmy.world)
In the last couple of months I have noticed an increasing trend of supplying me search results that are completely unrelated to the current query and tie back to my location or previous searches. I can say this with a high degree of certainty this is without a doubt beyond the 100th instance this has happened.
My browser is configured against tracking and fingerprinting (in fact all my devices are) which would make it fairly difficult to retain any data unless they are profiling me.
I've never seen the point of this search engine or any commercial alternative to google. It's all just varying layers of proxy to Google. You might as well just find a searx instance and use that because it's all the same crap at the end of the day.
Huh? I thought duckduckgo maintained its own index?