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Use DuckDuckGo to improve your privacy online (2018)
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Re: Use DuckDuckGo to improve your privacy online (2018)
#12I first tried DDG in its early years and it just didn't yield the results I needed, I tried it again a couple of years ago and have stuck with it ever since as it has must better results these days.
Re: Use DuckDuckGo to improve your privacy online (2018)
#13I first tried DDG in its early years and it just didn't yield the results I needed, I tried it again a couple of years ago and have stuck with it ever since as it has must better results these days.
Totally agree. Had a similar experience as well and then tried again a few months ago and am happy. I do still need to jump over to Le Goog for some searches though. The UI supports a good amount of tweaking which was helpful for getting me used to the switch too
Re: Use DuckDuckGo to improve your privacy online (2018)
#14Does this offer anything unique that other content blockers cannot? From what I can see it would only be the forced encryption and I guess the letter grade.
I love DDG for search but not sure this browser competes with 1Blocker X Safari integration on iOS.
Re: Use DuckDuckGo to improve your privacy online (2018)
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#16I first tried DDG in its early years and it just didn't yield the results I needed, I tried it again a couple of years ago and have stuck with it ever since as it has must better results these days.
Totally agree. Had a similar experience as well and then tried again a few months ago and am happy. I do still need to jump over to Le Goog for some searches though. The UI supports a good amount of tweaking which was helpful for getting me used to the switch too
!g search term
Re: Use DuckDuckGo to improve your privacy online (2018)
#17Why would I use another AMERICAN / Western search engine? I personally feel we would be better off using Yandex (Russian) or Baidu (Chinese) search engines. We need more COMPETITION to reduce our reliance on parasites like Google / Microsoft / FB etc and thus force the industry to reevaluate their business model on how they make money from us.
Yandex has a pretty decent search engine, and also helpfully provides a link to Google / Bing too, in case one isn't satisfied with their search results. This is smart of them as they still get data to improve their search engine, but also don't leave their users disgruntled when the search results aren't relevant.
Re: Use DuckDuckGo to improve your privacy online (2018)
#18Why is this suddenly on the front page?
Re: Use DuckDuckGo to improve your privacy online (2018)
#19Switched to DDG for my defaults over a year ago now. Still occasionally have to append a !g to my search, and Google Maps is still unmatched, but for run of the mill searches it's been working out. Google lost my trust, so if I can avoid using a service of theirs with a viable alternative, I do so. Go, OpenStreetMap!!
Re: Use DuckDuckGo to improve your privacy online (2018)
#20As usual most of the comments here are "I made the switch and couldn't be happier" and have nothing to do with the actual submission. Therefore I feel obligated to post my usual rant about DDG just being a wrapper for Bing.