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

  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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      • spraynpray@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Startpage is owned by an advertising company

        Yes, if the choice is between DDG and that, I’d choose DDG.

        Mullvad Leta is only available to Mullvad VPN customers

        Never heard of that.

        Brave does a whole bunch of shady stuff, e.g. installing VPN services on people’s computers, although they never asked for it

        They installed a Windows service that was needed to run their VPN. That service on its own does nothing. That what I heard at least. I didn’t look to much into it since I don’t really care. Brave sucks and I wouldn’t trust it, so I agree on principle. Also worse than DDG.

        The other options aren’t good either

        SearXNG and 4get is what I recommend for privacy. They get their results from other search engines but those won’t be able to trace the query back to you. Also, it’s open source and everyone can set up their own instance so there is no incentive to generate profit from your data.

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