Yeah, but if the alternatives aren’t better, why not just use DDG
Because those alternatives never explicitly whitelisted trackers from MS.
Yeah, but if the alternatives aren’t better, why not just use DDG
Because those alternatives never explicitly whitelisted trackers from MS.
Dehydrated@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Tell me which of the options I listed you would use.
The other options aren’t good either
spraynpray@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Yes, if the choice is between DDG and that, I’d choose DDG.
Never heard of that.
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.
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.
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.