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Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by secondary_op »

n_ary wrote: post #29
secondary_op wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Presume that duckduckgo is not private or otherwise compromised. For example many things I search trough duckduckgo later that day showed up in my twitter/x.com algorithmic feed, coincidence ? don't think so.

Or it could be that, when you search something, you also click through to some of the results, where FB/AdWords and other trackers are present. Alternatively, there was a fallacy of human mind(forgot the name), where if you think of something, your brain will start focusing on the random occurrences of that things in all places. So, those ads were always there, your brain just started focusing suddenly on those as yo…

Yes, in this case only way to not be spied on is to not go on the internet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by ikt »

I duno how this isn't getting more views tbh

Ecosia and Duckduckgo and Bing are down, there's at least 5% of the search engine market (the non-google part) down at the moment

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by secondary_op »

That's it, ddg is gone from my Firefox and hopefully from my browsing habits.

Speaking about Firefox, it is insane how needlessly complicated it is to add new search engine to Firefox [1]

    1. Open a new tab and type about:config in the address bar
    2. In the search box type: browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh
    3. Click on the little + symbol on the right. It should look like after you pressed it: boolean true value
    4. Go to firefox Settings → Search. Or enter this in the address bar: about:preferences#search
    5. In the "Search Shortcuts" section you should notice a new "add" button. search add button
    6. Press the add button and fill in the name, search engine url and a keyword(optional).
    7. Go to the "Default Search Engine" section and select the engine you just added.
[1] https://superuser.com/questions/7327/how-to-add-a-custom-sea...
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