Comment on Microsoft is once again injecting pop-up ads into Google Chrome on Windows in a bid to get people to switch to Bing

• Dehydrated@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨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.

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  • spraynpray@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    SearX, SearXNG and 4get are also just proxies for multiple search engines

    And DDG is just a proxy for Bing following that logic. I’d choose those three over DDG.

    Kagi requires an account, and only allows 100 searches

    Making a new account every 100 searches should be an option (albeit a somewhat tedious one), no?

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    • Dehydrated@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And DDG is just a proxy for Bing following that logic. I’d choose those three over DDG.

      Yeah, but if the alternatives aren’t better, why not just use DDG?

      Making a new account every 100 searches should be an option (albeit a somewhat tedious one), no?

      That ain’t a great solution either

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      • spraynpray@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, but if the alternatives aren’t better, why not just use DDG

        Because those alternatives never explicitly whitelisted trackers from MS.

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  • Mojeek@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    sorry to hear that; if you are using us any point in the future and want to flag this, we have a “submit feedback” button on pages, this is a really useful thing to do for us, as it helps us to identify results which are not so good :D

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    • Dehydrated@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I would love to switch away from DuckDuckGo, and I would be very happy if Mojeek was a viable alternative. I’ll try using it for some time and I will report and issues I encounter with the search. Btw it’s great that you’re on the Fediverse!

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      • Mojeek@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        thanks a lot in advance, and fedi is where it’s at ! 💯

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  • bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    >Brave, a company notorious for pushing weird NFT and Blockchain shit,

    what nft shit?

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    • Dehydrated@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      brave.com/category/web3-crypto-nfts/

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