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@cwebber in-fucking-deed

@cwebber How about https://mojeek.com

@cwebber

I continually amazes me how many people do not do this.

@cwebber I didn't know they had this.

@cwebber me too.

@cwebber

I did the same as soon as I heard it was an option. 👍

For those who may have only a partial picture, it is my understanding that:

1) Main #DuckDuckGo is Bing (Microsoft) under the covers, with the #surveillance bits removed. This is a good start IMO.

2) For some reason, DDG feels compelled to promote its version of "#AI Assistance". You can politely refuse, but as soon as you delete cookies the promotions return. They also have support for "good ads" (which I also politely refuse, and then they return unbidden). Both features should be "opt-in" and not on by default! 🙄

3) The "noai." prefix yields the same DDG with all the AI cruft removed (https://noai.duckduckgo.com). 🙂

Anyone have better information than the above?

@cwebber
I tried it for ages, but find Qwant better.
DuckDuckGo seems to use MS Bing.

@cwebber - its okay, but based in US - and despite its efforts at privacy - its still at the mercy of the demands of the current government agencies seeking info on use and users.
Better yet to find a search engine based elsewhere - say, the EU, which has much stronger privacy and security laws (even when applied upon governments) than US.
For my part, I either use Startpage or Ecosia.

@cwebber I was on duckduckgo but changed to qwant because american boicot. Qwant still have great privacy politics as far as I know.

Also ditch all chromium browsers haha

@cwebber FWIW Startpage is no AI by default & they say (!) they will keep it that way.

@cwebber if theres a massive movement away from google that could be the bubble pop

@cwebber @TimChaffee I switched to Kagi. Worth every freaking penny.

@cwebber
I did a while ago, it's so much better this way!

(For people who don't know, the full string to set is "https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%s")

@cwebber
Dump all Google Stock