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[-] ssm@lemmy.sdf.org 44 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Thank you for the recommendation, DuckDuckGo marketing team. Instead, consider the following:

http://wiby.me/

https://searx.space/

[-] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

lmao consider the duckduckgo team goes home and boots up searx for their use

[-] merde@sh.itjust.works 31 points 4 months ago

duckduckgo?

with a name like that they have no chance of… becoming the most popular google alternative they already are 🤔

[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

If it was an unknown project then the name could be a problem but at this point it's known and very easy to remember which is very good

[-] perishthethought@lemm.ee 26 points 4 months ago

I can't decide whether to upvote this for the good recommendation it makes, or downvote it for the spammy YT channel "Hey Guys" and the really obvious well known nature of the whole post.

[-] No_Support_8363@lemm.ee -2 points 4 months ago

I can confirm I did not intend to put any effort at all into making it sound non-spammy and bot-like

[-] perishthethought@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

All good. IMO, almost discussion on Lemmy is good.

[-] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 22 points 4 months ago

Honestly, Searx is better, and you can add ddg as an engine and still maintain your privacy from them.

https://searx.space/

[-] sunzu@kbin.run 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Can I add it to my Android browser?

Yet it can, just to set it up manually

Will work

[-] halm@leminal.space 19 points 4 months ago

"Hey guys", DDG is like 15 years old already, partners with Bing, and seems to give IP location-based search results in "private" mode.

[-] electricprism@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

DuckDuckGo censors just like Google.

Their CEO is trash.

Federated is the only way.

Edit: To clarify, they are controlled opposition who serve the same master.

The best be right now is https://searx.space like https://searx.garudalinux.org or similar.

[-] sunzu@kbin.run 10 points 4 months ago

DuckDuckGo on Android tracks your search clicks via some weird injection

[-] lud@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago
[-] sunzu@kbin.run 1 points 4 months ago

Open it on Android, run a search and check the url

[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 months ago

I heard some bad stuff about it a few months ago. Not sure what was going on. But DDG is pretty good. I'm using it for like a year and I'm always satisfied with the search results. They also made a privacy-focused AI chat frontend for those interested in it. It even includes some open-source models now.

[-] No_Support_8363@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

Its better than Google shit

[-] Steve@communick.news 4 points 4 months ago

Still an attention based, ad funded business model, that turns it's users into the product.

[-] No_Support_8363@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

Well then use Qwant

[-] Amius@pawb.social 2 points 4 months ago

Kagi has become my main search engine

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