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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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  - 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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    Dehydrated@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I tried to use 4get as a DDG proxy, all the instances I tried kept getting blocked by DuckDuckGo. It wasn’t a great experience. I also tried SearX and SearXNG many times, I always keep coming back to DuckDuckGo, because it just works and it gives me decent results. With SearX, I often had trouble finding relevant results. I tried various options and different search engine backends in SearXNG, but I never really liked it. DDG is definitely far from perfect, but so are the other options, and I think DDG is the best and easiest to use for less technical users.
    
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