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DuckDuckGo for Mac is now open source

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Re: DuckDuckGo for Mac is now open source

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Post by mindracer »

1317 wrote: post #27
0xbadcafebee wrote: post #2

Has anyone else noticed 99% of DDG search results are now AI spam? I can't look for anything on DDG anymore, it's 100 pages of "Table of Contents" questions/answers by AI. It's like when recipe blogs took over the internet, but worse now, because I can't even get a reliable answer now.

I don't get AI spam, but I have started getting recent news articles, generally starting from ~the end of page 1 and getting more and more common as you go further down. i find they contain maybe one word from my query in the title- so it's not just pulling them out from nowhere, but come on surely it can do better than that... I switched to a different search engine (brave) to get away from it, the result quality se…

I’ve been seeing this in DDG too, pretty annoying. I usually end up switching over to Google but will try Brave now you mention it

Re: DuckDuckGo for Mac is now open source

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Post by 486sx33 »

_ph_ wrote: post #45
ergonaught wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://duckduckgo.com/mac You'll never guess the one trick I used to find that. They don't want you to know.

Please don't post links that download things automatically.

uBlock stopped the auto download for me I think

Re: DuckDuckGo for Mac is now open source

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Post by 486sx33 »

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #2

Has anyone else noticed 99% of DDG search results are now AI spam? I can't look for anything on DDG anymore, it's 100 pages of "Table of Contents" questions/answers by AI. It's like when recipe blogs took over the internet, but worse now, because I can't even get a reliable answer now.

DDG search seems to fill 95% of my needs. 5% of the time I have to switch to Google , usually for reviews or some strange maps link / interface. I suppose reviews are part of Google maps too, so really I only need that. Need is questionable but it’s there and easy

Re: DuckDuckGo for Mac is now open source

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Post by pythux »

amusingimpala75 wrote: post #46
NayamAmarshe wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been using Brave Search for years and it's fantastic. I haven't used Google since and it supports Bangs! like DDG. It's free so you can give it a try.

I really liked Brave Search but unfortunately it started giving me captchas on every search after 11 pm Pacific or so for some (unknown) reason. They’re not even image captchas, you just click the button and wait 15-20 seconds which is pretty inconvenient.

Hi, Brave engineer here,

May I ask when you switched away from Brave Search? We've been doing work to reduce the amount of captchas a few months ago and we stopped getting feedback about this issue at that point. If it's still happening, it's something we will look into again.

Also, are you a user of ProtonVPN by any chance?

Thanks for your help,

Re: DuckDuckGo for Mac is now open source

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Post by benbristow »

We have taken steps to update our terminology and remove words with problematic racial connotations, most notably the change to main branches, allow lists, and blocklists. Closed issues or PRs may contain deprecated terminology that should not be used going forward.

TIL blacklist and whitelist are racist. Even though if you look at the etymology they're not. Meh.

Re: DuckDuckGo for Mac is now open source

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Post by NayamAmarshe »

pythux wrote: post #55
amusingimpala75 wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really liked Brave Search but unfortunately it started giving me captchas on every search after 11 pm Pacific or so for some (unknown) reason. They’re not even image captchas, you just click the button and wait 15-20 seconds which is pretty inconvenient.

Hi, Brave engineer here, May I ask when you switched away from Brave Search? We've been doing work to reduce the amount of captchas a few months ago and we stopped getting feedback about this issue at that point. If it's still happening, it's something we will look into again. Also, are you a user of ProtonVPN by any chance? Thanks for your help,

Hi pythux, off-topic question but do engineers directly read the feedback or is it filtered for you by someone else?

Re: DuckDuckGo for Mac is now open source

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Post by hombre_fatal »

_ph_ wrote: post #45
ergonaught wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://duckduckgo.com/mac You'll never guess the one trick I used to find that. They don't want you to know.

Please don't post links that download things automatically.

Your browser auto-downloaded it. The website just said it's available.
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