A lot of people are talking about the quality of DDG results and I thought I would mention that there is a way to tell DDG about their search results. It's pretty hidden but there is a "Send Feedback" button in the bottom right. They should really make it more visible so that they can get community feedback about what results they need to improve.
DuckDuckGo Reaches 100M Daily Search Queries
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I use ublock origin, I don't get ads on youtube.
There is on mobile and there's so much nowadays that I had to stop clicking video links on my phone.
You can use Youtube Vanced (Youtube Advance without the Ad) on your phone. I can not recommend it enough.
It also supports "Sponsor blocker". It's the best app for youtube addicts.
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#93I've been using start page for the past two years without a problem, but I do find myself dipping into google for maps and "near me" searches.
That being said the biggest drawback is if my wife uses my phone to search for something she grumbles at me.
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#94I’m using ddg, pihole, unbound, ublock, signal. Deleted twitter, Facebook. Looking to move away from google. Things just feel, cleaner this way. Still a long way to go
Unbound resolves to multiple things for me. Are you referring to the DNS resolver, or something else?
Unbound dns resolver.
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#95I am on my third attempt of forcing myself to use DDG. Been back on DDG-only now for about 2 weeks and all i can say is that it still has a long way to go to be a viable alternative to Google. In my experience, even Bing provides significantly better results.
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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).
You might enjoy invidious. It's a frontend for youtube that cuts 99% of the bloat and show videos directly in your html5 player. It even supports subscriptions without a google account!
Is it still running ok. Didn’t the main instance shutdown or something? Sorry, I forget the specifics.
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#97I’m using ddg, pihole, unbound, ublock, signal. Deleted twitter, Facebook. Looking to move away from google. Things just feel, cleaner this way. Still a long way to go
None of the things you mentioned are replacements for either Twitter or Facebooks core products. A search engine, router level ad-blocker, browser-based adblocker and messaging app do not replace a public messageboard or a pseudo-public/pseudo-private messageboard/events service. Actually maybe "unbound" is that because there's a bunch of projects with that name, so who knows.
I’m not looking to replace them. Logging onto those products doesn’t seem to make my life better. Seeing my friends rant about politics doesn’t seem to make us closer. Having only politics on my mind isn’t a good thing so I think I’ll be better off with not relaxing them.
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#98I would estimate that greater than 90% of that traffic is bot traffic. Having run two web search engines in the past: search.netscape.com (pre-google) and blekko.com. Robots accounted for > 80% of traffic at Netscape (around 3M searches/day in 2000 IIRC) and definitely more than 80% at blekko. Maybe 90% or more. Some traffic is obviously bot traffic (single source IP, common patterns, obvious bot useragents) and then…
This is a fascinating trend - how could you even launch a search service today where that portion of your processing time is going to be spent powering bots (ad agencies?) and not addressing human queries. Wonder what a human-centric 'search' experience will look like in 2025... no more search bar, pre-emptive article fetch based on whatever some ML algorithm decides for you?
Exactly. If you can accurately ignore 50% of the bot traffic you halve your hardware expense. The trick is doing it in such a way that the bots don't notice.
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I pay for YouTube's premium service and I don't get ads either.
Along these lines, why doesn't google introduce a paid search service without ads? My hunch is that no matter the price point, it would be a huge revenue hit compared to actual advertising payments. My other hunch is that it would make the non ad-free experience greatly cheapened in the eyes of the consumer, in the same way youtube with ads feels different after experiencing youtube premium.
Because if you allow a paid option, all the people worth advertising to switch to that, and now the advertising portion of the business is worth a lot less.
They’re betting they can get more out of advertisers than paying subscribers.
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#100I'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.
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