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

• 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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      • Dehydrated@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Tell me which of the options I listed you would use.

        • Startpage is owned by an advertising company
        • Mullvad Leta is only available to Mullvad VPN customers
        • Brave does a whole bunch of shady stuff, e.g. installing VPN services on people’s computers, although they never asked for it

        The other options aren’t good either

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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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