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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish18•edit-29 months agoI use Qwant for my searches. I find the results better than DDG. https://www.qwant.com/
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish19•9 months ago Thanks for your visit Unfortunately we are not yet available in your country. And no way to set my country.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish14•9 months agoyou could set your country with a vpn 😎
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish12•9 months agoThat’s less than optimal, for a website that is to be used as a search engine.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•9 months agoThey also don’t allow country/located results but then in English. Hell, English is one of the legally accepted languages of this country :(
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish14•9 months agoWhoa. I did a search that would inevitably bring nothing but sponsored bullshit on Google - “best tires” My results were cartalk, consumer reports, cnet, and the consumer insider. Nary a national chain trying to sell me something in sight.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•9 months agoAren’t all of those sites just more adverts masquerading as information?
minus-squareR0cket_M00selinkfedilinkEnglish9•9 months agoThat’s the biggest problem, can’t even get straight data and ads separately. Now the articles are the ads, and SEO/adspace has made search results even less useful.
minus-squareR0cket_M00selinkfedilinkEnglish5•9 months agoYeah especially with LLM models, now you can automate your shills.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•9 months ago(Not important, but the M in LLM is “Model”)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•9 months agoI think they got removed from privacy guide unfortunately. https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/pull/342 I want to support a European based service, but unfortunately I have to stick with DDG for now.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•9 months agoI wonder why Firefox isn’t listed in their mobile web browsers.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•9 months agoThey actually explained that Android browsers must use the Chromium engine. Unfortunately, Mozilla GeckoView is still less secure than Chromium on Android. probably referring to the lack of pre-process site isolation on firefox.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•9 months ago“DDG” refers to DuckDuckGo just writing this for others who might’ve been confused like i was before looking it up
I use Qwant for my searches. I find the results better than DDG. https://www.qwant.com/
And no way to set my country.
you could set your country with a vpn 😎
That’s less than optimal, for a website that is to be used as a search engine.
They also don’t allow country/located results but then in English. Hell, English is one of the legally accepted languages of this country :(
Whoa. I did a search that would inevitably bring nothing but sponsored bullshit on Google - “best tires”
My results were cartalk, consumer reports, cnet, and the consumer insider.
Nary a national chain trying to sell me something in sight.
Aren’t all of those sites just more adverts masquerading as information?
That’s the biggest problem, can’t even get straight data and ads separately. Now the articles are the ads, and SEO/adspace has made search results even less useful.
Comments are the ads now too.
Yeah especially with LLM models, now you can automate your shills.
(Not important, but the M in LLM is “Model”)
I think they got removed from privacy guide unfortunately.
https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/pull/342
I want to support a European based service, but unfortunately I have to stick with DDG for now.
I wonder why Firefox isn’t listed in their mobile web browsers.
They actually explained that
probably referring to the lack of pre-process site isolation on firefox.
“DDG” refers to DuckDuckGo
just writing this for others who might’ve been confused like i was before looking it up