Comment on Seeing lemmy all over Google search results gives me hope

Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Eh, ill go there if duckduck doesnt find what im looking for.

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  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Duckduck is just a wrapper for bing (and gives microsoft trackers a free pass)

    Startpage is a similar thing that uses google. Considering how hated bing is believe Duck only got more popular because of privacy marketing.

    The safest alternative is running your own searxng client, it still relies on bing and google but at least you can verify that its actually stopping all trackers.

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    • Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      How about i juat wont search.

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      • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I regret not including this as an option now but I contemplated adding this part:

        The majority of our (subjective-my) internet nowadays follows patterns of the same places, new places are often found on the old places.

        Most of my sites are bookmarked trusted websites. (Increasingly more self hosted also)

        I find i rarely need a search engine anymore and when often when i do i can’t find anything anyway. Stuff has gotten so buried under search engine optimisation you are better of using ai for a first responds to obtain the terminology to search for how wrong ai got it then by searching for a question directly.

        I am hoping to try this thing soon and if its good it might replace 90% of my browser activity. -> github.com/glanceapp/glance

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