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This is slightly off-topic, but I wonder why duckduckgo don't try and acquire a domain like ddg.com - It sounds minor but I find it a hard domain to type for trying out a search (when google isn't giving me what I want), whereas if it was ddg.com I'd probably jump to it more as an alternative. Maybe I am just incredibly lazy, though.
After a few failed attempts to migrate from Google as my default search engine due to poor results, a couple of months ago, I decided to give DDG another try. Been using daily since, I don't even remember what Google is. Not sure if the service did improve that much or what, but I'm glad I could move on. Youtube, you are next.
I do many technical searches throughout the day, and ddg falls short basically every time. Google is always closer to the mark with my search intent, with for example, deep links to stack overflow answers that ddg misses.
A few dozen of those were mine! For geographically local stuff I have to use !g unless I get really specific with my search term (which is understandable). But for most other things DDG is good enough.
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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.
As a music listener I love YouTube music app, it's great being able to listen to almost anything I want in high quality any time.
I remember trying to get the Guardians of the Galaxy awesome mix, and it only had a youtube video with all songs glued together. Also, it was a bit weird experience overall because they matched so many random videos
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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.
As a music listener I love YouTube music app, it's great being able to listen to almost anything I want in high quality any time.
Example: there is a mobile network named Three in both the UK and Ireland. With the Ireland location toggle enabled, the search “Three network coverage” places the Irish Three (three.ie) in fifth position, under four .co.uk results.
I’m at the point where if I need to search something that could be location dependant I throw a !g onto the search term by default.
This is slightly off-topic, but I wonder why duckduckgo don't try and acquire a domain like ddg.com - It sounds minor but I find it a hard domain to type for trying out a search (when google isn't giving me what I want), whereas if it was ddg.com I'd probably jump to it more as an alternative. Maybe I am just incredibly lazy, though.
At what point did google search go from that great search engine to what amounts to an ad landing page full of spam. Sundar keeps trying to go into other markets rather than weeding the garden already sown, and its not going to end well.
I'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 ublock origin, I don't get ads on youtube.
YouTube in the browser has almost all features of the app now, so there's no compelling reason to use the YouTube app.