Comment on Microsoft Bing is trying to spoof Google UI when people search Google.com

FundMECFS@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  DDG is just Bing under the hood

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  • FundMECFS@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And Searx is the same. And startpage is just google.

    But the point is they don’t track.

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    • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      DDG was letting Bing track users. They may have stopped now that they got in trouble for it.

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      • FundMECFS@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Wait really?

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• gregor@gregtech.eu ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I host my own SearXNG instance, which miiiight be a bit of a bad idea because the anonymity of the crowd disappears but hosting your own services is way too cool to ignore. It’s at search.gregtech.eu in case anyone wants to use it.

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  • vinyl@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Pretty impressed, very accurate informationLargest manufacturer in the world.

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    • turkalino@lemmy.yachts ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Accurate indeed. Pee is stored in the balls, cum is stored in the prostate

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      • Brumefey@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You know your content is certainly used to train LLMs ?

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    • kilgore_trout@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It pulls from Wikidata

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  • FundMECFS@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hahha GregSearX I love it!

    I’ve used searX in the past and found it was decent but personally I am going to stick with duckduckgo because it just works better for my needs (especially since I’m on mobile).

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  • kratoz29@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What I don’t like about SearXNG (aside of no favicons/icons I think) is that it doesn’t show the content of what I am looking for in the browser desktop tabs, if I search for “Linux” in the tab it is only shown “SearXNG” instead of what I am searching for… That definitely kills my browsing habits… I hope I am being clear (can’t post a screenshot right now), also unsure if it was the same with mobile browsers.

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    • hedgehog@ttrpg.network ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You can control that with a setting. In Settings - Privacy, turn on “Query in the page’s title.”

      My instance has a magnifying glass as the favicon.

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      • kratoz29@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Thank you, totally missed this then 😄

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    • cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That is configurable. Settings > Privacy > Query in the page’s title

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      • kratoz29@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh, so it was a privacy feature then? Neat!

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    • gregor@gregtech.eu ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I can set up a favicon resolver on my instance. I’ll do it today.

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      • kratoz29@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Thank you, I didn’t even know it was possible.

        I am gonna try it later, happy spying /j

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    • kilgore_trout@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It supports favicons now, it has to be enabled by the instance.

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  • steal_your_face@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So then you can track my searches?

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    • gregor@gregtech.eu ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I guess I could technically do that, but I really don’t give a f what people search for on my searxng instance. Plus, Google and the likes have an incentive to use your searches for advertising and building a profile on you.

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      • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If people search for illegal content does that get you in trouble?

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  • nef@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is nothing like GregTech! Where’s the tedious microcrafting to enjoy before every search?

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  • moe93@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How did you change the logo? I tried to do that on my instance and failed miserably. Running it through docker.

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• dan@upvote.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  SearX is dead; you should use SearXNG now.

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• Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I feel like Microsoft is way more shameless about their shady stuff. They’ve been messing around with impersonating google/chrome for awhile now, they recently had that thing where they would copy all your open chrome tabs, and then when you started your computer it would open edge with all your chrome tabs to trick people into using edge instead.

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  • vinyl@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They aren’t afraid of people complaining about them, they are afraid of the government, and they fulfill a hefty amount of contracts for the gov

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• vinyl@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I would use anything else before DDG, the primary function of it which is searching, generally feels sucky

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