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I use ublock origin, I don't get ads on youtube.
I pay for YouTube's premium service and I don't get ads either.
DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use ublock origin, I don't get ads on youtube.
I pay for YouTube's premium service and I don't get ads either.
I do the same. I am a little annoyed that I can’t pay for ad-free Youtube without also buying YouTube Music, which I didn’t need.
Content costs money, and if I don’t want ads, I need to pay the difference. I where a little surprised to see Linus Tech Tips break down they income and showing that Youtube Premium as significant source of revenue.
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#43After a few failed attempts to migrate from Google as my default search engine due to poor results, a couple of months ago, I decided to give DDG another try. Been using daily since, I don't even remember what Google is. Not sure if the service did improve that much or what, but I'm glad I could move on. Youtube, you are next.
I think something improved, I used to switch back and forth probably used 80% Google, but know I now use DDG about 80% of the time.
This rate of use is strikingly similar to mine[1].
[1] I made a small add-on for firefox which tracks DDG usage and lists the usage stat.
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#44I’m using ddg, pihole, unbound, ublock, signal. Deleted twitter, Facebook. Looking to move away from google. Things just feel, cleaner this way. Still a long way to go
Unbound resolves to multiple things for me. Are you referring to the DNS resolver, or something else?
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#45Been using it for few years now, technical searches and in some languages other than English are still subpar compared to Google but you can add !g and it will open google on those ones
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#46I've been switched to DDG for about 4 months now. I am loving the Ads I get in youtube now that google doesn't know what I am interested in they have noting to do with anything I care about. It's wonderful. DDG still has a way to go for really technical queries. I just can't get the same results about this error or that in Java. Until then I'm 100% DDG for personal and 100% google for work.
> they have noting to do with anything I care about Why is this good? For me personally, both FB and Google figured out that I'm into home renovation and all they keep recommending me is relevant stuff. So I consider it free research done for me :) Contractors, webshops, pretty images are all over my feed. I even press accept cookies for webshops I want to see more of their competition :)
Eh. I don't really want to be sold to even if the thing I'm being sold might be interesting to me. I don't need more stuff and I really don't need my brain thinking I need more stuff. To each their own.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
I pay for YouTube's premium service and I don't get ads either.
I do the same. I am a little annoyed that I can’t pay for ad-free Youtube without also buying YouTube Music, which I didn’t need. Content costs money, and if I don’t want ads, I need to pay the difference. I where a little surprised to see Linus Tech Tips break down they income and showing that Youtube Premium as significant source of revenue.
As a music listener I love YouTube music app, it's great being able to listen to almost anything I want in high quality any time.
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I use ublock origin, I don't get ads on youtube.
I pay for YouTube's premium service and I don't get ads either.
I do too and pay everywhere I can for the services that I use. The world would be a far better place if it didn’t need ad support, and the only alternative that so far works at all is direct payment.
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#49This is slightly off-topic, but I wonder why duckduckgo don't try and acquire a domain like ddg.com - It sounds minor but I find it a hard domain to type for trying out a search (when google isn't giving me what I want), whereas if it was ddg.com I'd probably jump to it more as an alternative. Maybe I am just incredibly lazy, though.
They have ddg.gg which does your redirect
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use ublock origin, I don't get ads on youtube.
I pay for YouTube's premium service and I don't get ads either.
Along these lines, why doesn't google introduce a paid search service without ads? My hunch is that no matter the price point, it would be a huge revenue hit compared to actual advertising payments.
My other hunch is that it would make the non ad-free experience greatly cheapened in the eyes of the consumer, in the same way youtube with ads feels different after experiencing youtube premium.