DuckDuckGo is now the second most popular search engine in the West
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Let's make it #1....
Let's not. DDG is commie garbage (check their donations and ties).
Use https://search.brave.com (for normal information, shopping, restaurants, maps)
And use Qwant, Swisscows, Yixin for sensitive/censored information.
I am skeptical of DDG as well.
I just tried brave and typed in decoding symbols.
Nope.
Brave uses Google in its backend while cutting Google out. Good for practical purposes.
If you want to search sensitive information I recommend Qwant, Swisscows, Yixin or such.
Qwant is better than DDG. DDG is slightly less woke and corrupt than Google, but they still cover up the truth.
Just after the election, Qwant was the only search engine showing predictive text suggestions for 'election fraud'. All the others, including DDG, were substituting election fraud suggestions with alternative suggestions.
Try typing - Hilary Clinton is - into various search engines. The results will tell you all you need to know.
I only wrote hillary on qwant and is suggesting "hillary clinton hanged". This is a stunning surprise.
DDG is controlled opposition to google. I wouldn't be surprised if they are all on the same team. You don't get unbiased results with DDG, just different biased results.
I know because I have used DDG for over four years.
Try a few searches with my new fave:
https://presearch.org/
Initial testing of presearch has been promising. Thanks for the tip.
I will give it a go, thanks for the info....
For those that don't use it...
Try it.
Think you can get a better result on Google? Just add "g!" to your search, get Google.com.
It's just as good for most results, for me.
Damn straight...
I'm relatively ambivalent about what alt-tech search engines people use as long as its not google or bing. Been using DDG myself for a long time and dont have any reason to switch though it will be great seeing what the people at Brave bring to the table in their search.
If the beast weaponises info against you, the perfect counter is to starve the beast of info. Blackhole all google domains in your ad-blocker, dont use their search or docs thing.
When you say "all", what do you mean beyond google.com? Can you help out and old guy? Thanks
Time to find another one. Before long it will be compromised just like the others, if it hasn't been already. Whether intentionally or unintentionally when many congregate in one place, it's bound to become corrupt.
PSA. I have DDG set as my default search in Chrome. Yeah yeah, I know….
I wanted to read up on the new countdown clock (mcafee bday) and typed in my search in the url box at the top. Results were for just “birthday”. I already knew the answer. I had to type the keywords int the page search box, not the url box.
Currently watching man’s right to know- wilhelm reich on bitchute
Are you sure you have your URL box set to DDG. In setting you have many options.
yep. double checked it
Thanks to everyone who has enlightened me on this subject. I am now a wee bit brighter for your efforts....
Fuck, it will get corrupt soon. Thats what the big tech does. Takes over one way or another.
Unfortunately yes....
Correct me if I am wrong, but DuckDuckGo only protects you, or does not tract you, during the search you do from the DuckDuckGo home page.
When you click on a link that is returned via your search, you are not longer within the purview of DDG. Now if you have the DDG Privacy Essentials plugin installed in the browser that you are using, then you will get some tracker protection, but of course this would be negated by any site that you sign into.
For example, if I use CCleaner to clean all my history, cookies etc.., and visit YT, it will not no who I am, and have my YOUTUBE history, but if I sign into YT, then it will know exactly who I am, and will shown suggested vids based on what I did recently, whether or no I have YT history enabled or not.
If I read what you wrote correctly, then yes you are correct in your assessment of YT. I have no understanding of the other element of your comment concerning DDG Privacy Essentials.
If I read what you wrote correctly, then yes you are correct in your assessment of YT.
Ha Ha, Of course you read it correctly, if your conclusion is that I am correct.
If you has told me I was wrong, then I would tend to think that surly you misunderstood what I meant to say.
Howls...
Just the other day I found out they are no better than Google.
Not long if people have any sense. DDG funds communists.
Very telling
Interesting allegation....How so?
Check their donations page. And that's just for the immediately obvious public ties.
Ceo is a tribesman.