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...and you trust Chrome? Not even Chromium, but... Chrome. Google makes Chrome, you know.
You don't have to trust it. You can sniff 100% of the traffic coming out of your own computer. You can even configure a firewall to block all traffic to Google's netblocks.
i always make ddg my default... but then ill just use google for a sec and forget to change my search back to ddg and then without noticing ill be using google for the next week. .... so my project for the weekend is to make a firefox extension that resets your search default every X hours/days.
...and you trust Chrome? Not even Chromium, but... Chrome. Google makes Chrome, you know.
http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216441-f...
https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%s
DDG definitely doesn't have the same quality results as Google, but it's close enough in most circumstances for me that the times I have to search twice aren't a huge factor.
i always make ddg my default... but then ill just use google for a sec and forget to change my search back to ddg and then without noticing ill be using google for the next week. .... so my project for the weekend is to make a firefox extension that resets your search default every X hours/days.
Have you seen the ! queries on DuckDuckGo? If you add !g to a search, it redirects you to Google. !i goes to Google Image search. I guess there are others.
The only thing stopping me from making this switch is that doing arithmetic in the url bar stops working... I use that quite a bit. Is this some deep integration with chrome or can it be made to work with ddg as well?
The only thing stopping me from making this switch is that doing arithmetic in the url bar stops working... I use that quite a bit. Is this some deep integration with chrome or can it be made to work with ddg as well?
Did google do the math without hitting send? This works for me https://duckduckgo.com/?q=5*5
Using DuckDuckGo in Chrome is like asking for privacy while walking around naked in Times Square. Chrome has 100% unrestricted access to anything your user can access on your PC, no matter what search engine you choose.
