FWIW, we have witnessed a noticeable increase in ddg derived traffic across all properties.
DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries
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#102I'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.
I use DDG as well but I went further and told Firefox to use a dedicated container for google domains. I also did it because they made Youtube really annoying to use when you're not logged in, so I made a burner account but it's only active inside this container and they can't track me around the web (at least, not with that).
How do you specify what sites to be put in a container? What I want to be able to do is anytime I click on my bookmark link, it'll open it up in a new container. I haven't figured out a way to do this without some manual process.
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#103I've used DDG full-time for over two years now. I honestly don't miss Google. Every time I use !g I'm reminded just how bad it's gotten. Between the SEO spam and ads I find myself scrolling at least halfway down the page to find anything even remotely relevant. I can't say that DDG always has the 'best' results, but at least they seem appropriate to what I'm searching for. One thing I do wish DDG has is webmaster too…
I've been switched for several years as well. I like most not seeing AMP links and am always reminded how terrible Google is when someone shares a link with me and its just a big ugly google AMP mangled URL.
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#104I've used DDG full-time for over two years now. I honestly don't miss Google. Every time I use !g I'm reminded just how bad it's gotten. Between the SEO spam and ads I find myself scrolling at least halfway down the page to find anything even remotely relevant. I can't say that DDG always has the 'best' results, but at least they seem appropriate to what I'm searching for. One thing I do wish DDG has is webmaster too…
What you are saying is you like Bing results more than Google, DDG is bing with different UI.
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#105Happy to be a part of it. Their bangs and vim bindings make me so efficient!
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#106FWIW, we have witnessed a noticeable increase in ddg derived traffic across all properties.
Wait, you're getting referrer strings with DDG in them? How is that private?
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use DDG as well but I went further and told Firefox to use a dedicated container for google domains. I also did it because they made Youtube really annoying to use when you're not logged in, so I made a burner account but it's only active inside this container and they can't track me around the web (at least, not with that).
How do you specify what sites to be put in a container? What I want to be able to do is anytime I click on my bookmark link, it'll open it up in a new container. I haven't figured out a way to do this without some manual process.
The official "Multi-Account Containers" extension does that. Honestly I don't understand why it's not built-in, because as you mention without it it's hard not to "leak" outside of the containers.
With it you can associate domains with containers and tell Firefox to always open them in a container. It will also automatically un-containerize if you follow a link to a third party domain. Basically how I expect containers to work.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
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#108To the webmasters here on HN: Do you see this reflected in higher user numbers coming from DuckDuckGo over time? I run a website too. Let me check the stats... So according to Google Analytics over the last 30 days, 0.7% of my visitors came from DDG. Not bad. That is more then half of Bing, from which 1.2% of my visitors come. Over time, the DuckDuckGo trend does not look as exponential as in their chart though. More…
Congrats to DuckDuckGo! It's amazing to see a privacy-first Google alternative making such great progress! I personally contribute with a few searches every day :)
Just checked the stats for our startup:
December:
Google 5.3k visitors
DDG 589 visitors
Bing 57 visitors
This month it looks a bit closer:
Google 2.8k
DDG 378
Bing 36
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#109One thing I loved about DDG, that 'forced' me to use it on mobile, is being able to filter by date (last week/month/year) on mobile. Google and Bing don't offer that simple feature in any way.
Google mobile website does for me. Steps:
* Search
* Scroll the tabs bar (All, Images, Shopping, etc) all the way to the rightmost entry, "Search Tools"
* Tap "Search Tools"
* A secondary menu bar with "ANY TIME \/" will appear. You can use that to filter by date-range.Re: DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries
#110Earlier 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.
Yeah. I don't use YouTube Music and don't care about downloading or background playback, so I'm not ready to pay $11.99/month just to hide ads.