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I started displaying a banner on my website [1] a while back for visitors using Chrome/Chromium telling them to "give Firefox a try for the future of the open web". I don't know how many people came across that or clicked the link, as I don't track that, but I enjoy doing my tiny part in letting people know. [1]: https://www.gkbrk.com
No thank you. I appreciate what DDG is trying to do but in the end, a search engine that makes money from selling ads trying to protect me from another search engine that also sells ads is just feeding the ecosystem. I am going to put my money into FF no matter how annoying some of the things in it are.
Really? I can appreciate not wanting to use DDG for a number of reasons, but because they are pushing for financial legitimacy on the basis that there can be an ad industry but it shouldn't be an arms race? Yes thank you, please make a market out of privacy! edit: I should probably say, please prove that privacy respecting markets are viable, I'm not suggesting the commoditisation of everything, lol.
I mean it's not as nefarious as it could be since they are actually privacy focused, but this blend of advice and advertisement is rubbing me the wrong way
Even without privacy considerations though, duckduckgo seems to give me better results, I've been using it as my default search engine for years
Before writing the above I did double check this as I was not sure. So it is a sign that there is not much difference from other engines.
Localized results (in Ireland) are not that great though. But with time I just changed the ways around search queries. It is not really an issue anymore.
uBlockOrigin already blocks FLoC in their privacy list and there are ideas to integrate it further as I understand [1]. So for all of us using that extension, there's no need to install DDG as well. [1] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/1553
Even without privacy considerations though, duckduckgo seems to give me better results, I've been using it as my default search engine for years
Second that, I'm using DDG in the FF. Have also enabled the same for the kids. Wife still protests but I'll switch it when she's sleeping. Before writing the above I did double check this as I was not sure. So it is a sign that there is not much difference from other engines. Localized results (in Ireland) are not that great though. But with time I just changed the ways around search queries. It is not really an issu…
As for Chrome, I simply don’t see any reason why anyone would use it over Brave. Brave seems to come pre installed with lots of privacy protection.
Tried the DDG extension, it changed my default search engine without asking. Uninstalled.
Isn't changing your default search engine to DDG the main appeal of the DDG extension?
Tried the DDG extension, it changed my default search engine without asking. Uninstalled.
First bullet point in the description.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you based in the US? I found them really bad for localized results outside of the US, even when local mode is enabled (although that's annoying to do manually). In the end I used !g for so many search queries that I switched back again.
I agree, for localised results Google is much better. I guess it depends what your normal search activity is to how much you'll notice the difference? For everyday searching I find DDG perfectly adequate and enjoy the ad-free, google-product-free experience. !G is handy sometimes though.