DuckDuckGo Is Taking Its Privacy Fight to Data Brokers (www.wired.com)

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[-] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago

Then another one comes up, and the cycle continues

[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 13 points 2 months ago

I use Kagi. At least I'm the one paying.

[-] mynamesnotrick@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 months ago

If it works for you... I agree with the general sentiment of "if its free you are the product". However, I see kagi come up so often around here that I feel like it's some astro turfing. I tried it and was not impressed. SearXNG is by far the best search engine I've used in a long time and the best part is I am hosting it locally on my PC, traffic is going out a VPN. You get the privacy and the best results possible since its a meta engine using many different engines.

[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 7 points 2 months ago

I tried it and was not impressed

It is better than ddg and Brave, that much I can say. Brave especially have been shit recently.

[-] mynamesnotrick@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

Never used brave, I think DDG is actually a pretty decent search engine overall. I use it as my backup to searxng and used it primarily for years now before switching to searxng.

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 months ago

Didn't Google nuke SearX? Or did they only nuke public instances?

[-] mynamesnotrick@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago

Google results work fine for me on my home instance:

[-] herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

If so, I wonder if that timeline lines up with when I was trying SearX. For the first few days I was blown away by the results, and then suddenly they became absolute garbage. I ended up switching back to DDG.

[-] hedge@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago

Wondering about this too 🤔

[-] rasakaf679@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 months ago

If you are naive enough to believe that they are not collecting your data. Good for you and your peace of mind.

[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 6 points 2 months ago

I feel like it's a good way to get sued if you straight up lie to paying customers

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 2 months ago

Cash out, get sued by angry customers, file for bankruptcy. Who cares about your public image being shattered when you are already gone with the wind?