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I've been using duckduckgo for years now with no issues, but today I opened it and realized there were no longer any search results before scrolling. It was all ads/info cards. So I guess I'm looking for a replacement. Any suggestions?

Related: anyone know if there's a way in the Adnauseum Firefox extension to hide ads on a specific trusted site? I like their goal of not punishing ads following the do not track standard, but DDG has crossed a threshold and I now want to blacklist them specifically.

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[–] thisispiggy@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Check out Kagi. It's a paid search engine. I've been using it almost half a year now and really enjoy it.

[–] Paradachshund 3 points 1 month ago (5 children)

What about it is worth paying for?

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Kagi is simply SearXNG backend with a pretty UI. Nothing it provides is unique or something you cannot get elsewhere for free and most times better.

It literally uses Bing and Google indexes and is functionally no different than DDG except for the ability for you to pay them money to quality control the search results for them, which is extremely dumb because they are essentially making you pay them for you to do a job for them.

Avoid it unless you have money to waste for aesthetics like Apple fanatics.

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