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So is privacy at last becoming mainstream? I look forward to the end of people saying "nobody cares about privacy".
The average tech person has been switching away from Google products, and this filters down to their social networks, and then their networks, and so on. It's a big deal when the tech people decide to switch. For me, it was Chrome making me log-in to my account. Now I use Firefox, DDG, ublock, privacy badger, etc. I think society writ large will begin to take privacy more seriously in the coming years. Edit FYI: If y…
There's all kinds of awesome 'bangs'. I realized it's actually easier to use the variety of google/bing search engines from ddg. google scholar: !gsc google images: !gi bing: !b
etymology dictionary: !etym
encyclopedia of integer sequences: !oeis
The average tech person has been switching away from Google products, and this filters down to their social networks, and then their networks, and so on. It's a big deal when the tech people decide to switch. For me, it was Chrome making me log-in to my account. Now I use Firefox, DDG, ublock, privacy badger, etc. I think society writ large will begin to take privacy more seriously in the coming years. Edit FYI: If y…
There's all kinds of awesome 'bangs'. I realized it's actually easier to use the variety of google/bing search engines from ddg. google scholar: !gsc google images: !gi bing: !b
wikipedia: !wiki
django: !django
python: !py
All sorts of them for your average developer.
So is privacy at last becoming mainstream? I look forward to the end of people saying "nobody cares about privacy".
That saying does seem to be a self-fulfilling prophecy, so I look forward in the same way. I predict that a large swath of the population still won't care much about privacy, or at least take action to protect theirs, but I'm seeing an awakening of people coming to realize how dangerous big tech can become. What's funny to me is if Google wasn't so brazen in ditching their old "don't be evil" pretense, we probably wo…
The average tech person has been switching away from Google products, and this filters down to their social networks, and then their networks, and so on. It's a big deal when the tech people decide to switch. For me, it was Chrome making me log-in to my account. Now I use Firefox, DDG, ublock, privacy badger, etc. I think society writ large will begin to take privacy more seriously in the coming years. Edit FYI: If y…
I switched earlier this year. It takes some time to get used to it. I used to !g often. It doesn't feel as intuitive at knowing what you are looking like Google. Addresses and map integration is not that good either and does not come even close to Google. It is a good enough. I have their app on my phone as my search tool, which I miss Google maps more often.
!gm will push you back to google maps if you need it!
The average tech person has been switching away from Google products, and this filters down to their social networks, and then their networks, and so on. It's a big deal when the tech people decide to switch. For me, it was Chrome making me log-in to my account. Now I use Firefox, DDG, ublock, privacy badger, etc. I think society writ large will begin to take privacy more seriously in the coming years. Edit FYI: If y…
There's all kinds of awesome 'bangs'. I realized it's actually easier to use the variety of google/bing search engines from ddg. google scholar: !gsc google images: !gi bing: !b
This metric is meaningless, for all we know DDG could have become less helpful and people have to rephrase their queries more often than before. EDIT: I'm not saying that is the case, but I hope that this example illustrates why this metrics is not a good substitute for standard metrics like DAU, MAU, revenue.
After everything that has happened in the last few weeks I've completely moved away from Google. 1. I retired my ~15 year old Gmail account and registered with Fastmail 2. I moved away from Chrome to Firefox on both my laptop and phone 3. I stopped using Chrome's password manager on iOS in favor of 1Password and Firefox Lockbox 4. I've mostly stopped using the Google search engine and now using DDG and Bing if I have…
As far as I know, they proxy Google results and avoid storing them in the browser via either a URL rewrite or a POST call. I find Google to return superior search data than DDG, particularly if it's not giving you recommended or personally ranked results (that alone makes it feel worthwhile to switch to SP/IxQuick). But it kind of feels like a free lunch.