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Time to ditch #duckduckgo (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by DetectiveSanity@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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In the last couple of months I have noticed an increasing trend of supplying me search results that are completely unrelated to the current query and tie back to my location or previous searches. I can say this with a high degree of certainty this is without a doubt beyond the 100th instance this has happened.

My browser is configured against tracking and fingerprinting (in fact all my devices are) which would make it fairly difficult to retain any data unless they are profiling me.

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[–] Gazumi@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago (10 children)

What would we suggest as a realistic alternative? Sears? Startpage? Brave? (I am no expert by the way, just looking for tips)

[–] coughrelief@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Searx sucks for images in my experience, startpage was bought by an advertising company, brave is weird for a multitude of reasons but I don't know how good their search engine is as I've never tried it

However I do think that finding a searx instance that works for you and then using another engine like ddg for images is the way to go... You could add a shortcut like ".ddg garbage truck" for easily searching with for example ddg on firefox

[–] Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How does searx suck for images exactly? 🫠

[–] melooone@feddit.de 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Also a bit confused by this. I thought the point of searxng is to combine your preferred search engines. So couldn't I just configure ddg for the image results?

[–] Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago

Maybe their point was that you cannot filter the images, like by color, size, license, etc

But anyway, if I want to show somebody a picture of something it works perfectly As for the results, they are pretty comparable between searx, ddg, and googlag.

I would even say searx wins on this one because 1. It's easier to navigate and open images 2. The nojs version of the search looks so much better than any other search engine

[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 0 points 11 months ago

Brave's search engine is... fine. I only use it by accident sometimes.

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