Ddg has content bubbles and tracking that you can stop.
Turn off location and you will still get results relevant to your area filling the page.
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Dehydrated@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Easy Solution: Linux, Firefox/LibreWolf, DuckDuckGo
Fuck Microsoft!
Squizzy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
joe_jowhat@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Duckduckgo once allowed trackers from Microsoft
Source: www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N3792HE
Dehydrated@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Pantherina@feddit.de 7 months ago
Ublock Origin does not black “malicious Javascript” reliably. You need NoScript for that, and a opt-in approach. Block everything, unblock what you need, hope its not malicious.
Dehydrated@lemmy.world 7 months ago
uBO can be set up to block all JS by default, allowing you to manually whitelist each script. github.com/gorhill/…/Blocking-mode:-hard-mode
graeghos_714@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I also run disabling addons for java script and flash as well as an overlay remover in Firefox
Dnn@lemmy.world 7 months ago
While I actually do that, you cannot seriously recommend it to anyone. Hardly any site works without Javascript nowadays.
spraynpray@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Dehydrated@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Suggest a better alternative then. Startpage, Mullvad Leta and Whoogle are just Google proxies (and Whoogle is pretty unreliable), SearX, SearXNG and 4get are also just proxies for multiple search engines. There are no good independent search engiens, Brave Search sucks because it’s made by Brave, a company notorious for pushing weird NFT and Blockchain shit, Mojeek has pretty bad search results and Kagi requires an account, and only allows 40 searches per month.
joe_jowhat@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I have nothing to do with Librewolf at all. Don’t confuse the two. I just said what Duckduckgo did with trackers based on a search agreement with Microsoft. BTW, this issue was initially exposed by others, not Duckduckgo itself.