Thank you for the recommendation, DuckDuckGo marketing team. Instead, consider the following:
this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2024
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lmao consider the duckduckgo team goes home and boots up searx for their use
Lol
duckduckgo?
with a name like that they have no chance of… becoming the most popular google alternative they already are 🤔
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
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.
I can confirm I did not intend to put any effort at all into making it sound non-spammy and bot-like
All good. IMO, almost discussion on Lemmy is good.
Honestly, Searx is better, and you can add ddg as an engine and still maintain your privacy from them.
Can I add it to my Android browser?
Yet it can, just to set it up manually
Will work
"Hey guys", DDG is like 15 years old already, partners with Bing, and seems to give IP location-based search results in "private" mode.
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.
DuckDuckGo on Android tracks your search clicks via some weird injection
Source?
Open it on Android, run a search and check the url
Like this: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=jk&ko=-1&ia=web
I don't know what they mean by KO but it's obviously not tracking.
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.
Its better than Google shit
Still an attention based, ad funded business model, that turns it's users into the product.
Well then use Qwant
Kagi has become my main search engine