I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year • Hacker News Board

Re: I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year

#61

Post by svnpenn » Sat, Feb 20, 2021, 9:40 PM UTC

TimBurr wrote: post #60

svnpenn wrote: post #6

Duck Duck Go uses "more results", instead of proper pagination. I won't use any website that has such poor judgement in website design.

I dunno if it addresses your concerns in particular, but there is a JS-free version with normal pagination: https://ddg.gg/html https://html.duckduckgo.com

Nope, same crap. Every single "page" has the same URL

Re: I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year

#62

Post by armoredkitten » Sun, Feb 21, 2021, 6:14 PM UTC

D13Fd wrote: post #58

I gave DuckDuckGo an honest shot for a few months a couple of years ago. I had to give it up, sadly. The results were just not good enough. I'd love to get away from google, but having less than perfect search had a surprisingly large impact on my day-to-day work. Just one instance of "I couldn't find anything about x . . . " where a manager responds "I found it in 10 seconds on Google" is probably enough to send jus…

I agree that Google is still just a better search engine, and that sucks. But I still try to do my search on DDG first -- if I find what I'm looking for, great! If I haven't found it after a few seconds, I open Google and search there. At most, I've wasted a few seconds. But even if it means Google has some data on me, if I can divert 40% (or more) of my searches to DDG, that's 40% less data Google has on my search history.

Re: I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year

#63

Post by codecamper » Mon, Feb 22, 2021, 12:54 PM UTC

FabHK wrote: post #54

greggyb wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not an all-or-nothing thing. For me, I watch YouTube in a dedicated Firefox Container (and everything else in either temporary containers or dedicated), so not much follows me around. Figure out what you want, and then put together pieces that get you there.

This. Or you can use DDG to search, then copy links you like and use youtube-dl to just download the video.

that sounds good. I need to set up some scripts to do this & also sync into my phone.

Re: I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year

#64

Post by FabHK » Mon, Feb 22, 2021, 9:49 PM UTC

codecamper wrote: post #63

FabHK wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This. Or you can use DDG to search, then copy links you like and use youtube-dl to just download the video.

that sounds good. I need to set up some scripts to do this & also sync into my phone.

Yeah. BTW, on macOS, it would be trivial to hack together an Automator workflow that gives you a Service (ie, a menu item in Safari->Services) that says "Download Video", or "Add Youtube Song to Music", and does what it says.

Basically you'd use the "Get Current Webpage from Safari" block, then in the Terminal

  PATH="/usr/local/bin:${PATH}"
  cd Music/YTDownloads  
  # or wherever you want it
  youtube-dl -q -f 140 "${@%%&*}"  
  # format 140 is 128k .m4a

Then add to existing playlist in music. Ah, if only it were legal!

Re: I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year

#65

Post by codecamper » Thu, Mar 04, 2021, 11:18 PM UTC

FabHK wrote: post #64

codecamper wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

that sounds good. I need to set up some scripts to do this & also sync into my phone.

Yeah. BTW, on macOS, it would be trivial to hack together an Automator workflow that gives you a Service (ie, a menu item in Safari->Services) that says "Download Video", or "Add Youtube Song to Music", and does what it says. Basically you'd use the "Get Current Webpage from Safari" block, then in the Terminal PATH="/usr/local/bin:${PATH}" cd Music/YTDownloads # or wherever you want it youtube-dl -q -f 140 "${@%%&*}"…

yup. I just keep a terminal open set to that path. Had just 10Mbit wifi before but that is now 500Mbit. Will have to revisit this solution. Something like a rsync would be nice.