Hey guys, check out Duckduckgo! Its a privacy essentials search engine with its own browser, it is used by TOR browser aswell
duckduckgo?
with a name like that they have no chance of… becoming the most popular google alternative they already are 🤔
If it was an unknown project then the name could be a problem but at this point it's known and very easy to remember which is very good
I can't decide whether to upvote this for the good recommendation it makes, or downvote it for the spammy YT channel "Hey Guys" and the really obvious well known nature of the whole post.
I can confirm I did not intend to put any effort at all into making it sound non-spammy and bot-like
All good. IMO, almost discussion on Lemmy is good.
Honestly, Searx is better, and you can add ddg as an engine and still maintain your privacy from them.
Can I add it to my Android browser?
Yet it can, just to set it up manually
Will work
"Hey guys", DDG is like 15 years old already, partners with Bing, and seems to give IP location-based search results in "private" mode.
DuckDuckGo censors just like Google.
Their CEO is trash.
Federated is the only way.
Edit: To clarify, they are controlled opposition who serve the same master.
The best be right now is https://searx.space like https://searx.garudalinux.org or similar.
I heard some bad stuff about it a few months ago. Not sure what was going on. But DDG is pretty good. I'm using it for like a year and I'm always satisfied with the search results. They also made a privacy-focused AI chat frontend for those interested in it. It even includes some open-source models now.
Its better than Google shit
Still an attention based, ad funded business model, that turns it's users into the product.
Well then use Qwant
I'm too lazy. And there's already Kagi
If you think the main limitation of hosting an independent non-meta (searxng) search engine is having a "better idea" then you're very lost.
Kagi has become my main search engine
Bing, specifically microsoft edge, is only useful for downloading Google Chrome
https://search.brave.com/ is the one
DuckDuckGo is just Bing, Brave's is at least it's own search engine, that grows with every unique search.
That is incorrect, it is a metasearch, so it uses results from over 400 search engines
Why the downvotes? Brave is the best Google alternative that works for me.
Thank you for the recommendation, DuckDuckGo marketing team. Instead, consider the following:
http://wiby.me/
https://searx.space/
lmao consider the duckduckgo team goes home and boots up searx for their use
Lol