- unexposedhazard ( @unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ) 33•1 month ago
Dont trust duck duck go with your privacy. Corpos gonna corpo. Sooner or later…
- Kidplayer_666 ( @Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee ) 13•1 month ago
Then another one comes up, and the cycle continues
- lowleveldata ( @lowleveldata@programming.dev ) 13•1 month ago
I use Kagi. At least I’m the one paying.
- Howdy ( @mynamesnotrick@lemmy.zip ) 18•1 month 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 ( @lowleveldata@programming.dev ) 7•1 month 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.
- Howdy ( @mynamesnotrick@lemmy.zip ) 2•1 month 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 ( @Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ) 5•1 month ago
Didn’t Google nuke SearX? Or did they only nuke public instances?
- Howdy ( @mynamesnotrick@lemmy.zip ) 6•1 month ago
Google results work fine for me on my home instance:
- herrcaptain ( @herrcaptain@lemmy.ca ) 5•1 month 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.
Wondering about this too 🤔
- rasakaf679 ( @rasakaf679@lemmy.ml ) 14•1 month ago
If you are naive enough to believe that they are not collecting your data. Good for you and your peace of mind.
- lowleveldata ( @lowleveldata@programming.dev ) 6•1 month ago
I feel like it’s a good way to get sued if you straight up lie to paying customers
- Karyoplasma ( @Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ) 16•1 month 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?
- lowleveldata ( @lowleveldata@programming.dev ) 7•1 month ago
Well at least that gives them more incentive to stay clean compare to other search engines, no?
- 4dpuzzle ( @tesseract@beehaw.org ) English4•1 month ago
These days, paying doesn’t guarantee your exclusion from being the product. The only way to guarantee privacy is to design it into the product.
- thingsiplay ( @thingsiplay@beehaw.org ) 21•1 month ago
I don’t trust Fuck (lol typo, it was an accident, f and d are really close!) DuckDuckGo and stopped using it since the “relevant” ads from Microsoft: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/company/ads-by-microsoft-on-duckduckgo-private-search/ I personally don’t trust them.
Rather use an open source search engine like SearxNG . If you don’t want host your own search engine, then use a third-party hosted one: https://searx.space/ and probably switch from time to time. Sometimes the search results are slower or not as good, but that is a price I pay.
- lemmyreader ( @lemmyreader@lemmy.ml ) English12•1 month ago
FckFckGo. I see what you did there.
+1 for the SearxNG. That project deserves wide spread attention as far as I am concerned.
- papaya ( @papaya@possumpat.io ) 11•1 month ago
Exactly this. I read the article in the post and thought it actually sounds like a nice service, but after getting this ad when searching “depression” on DDG last year, I don’t think I’ll ever trust them again lol.
- Exec ( @Exec@pawb.social ) 2•1 month ago
I don’t trust Fuck (lol typo, it was an accident, f and d are really close!)
FuckFuckNo
- Cloudless ☼ ( @cloudless@lemmy.cafe ) English12•1 month ago
Who is going to watch the watchers?
- thingsiplay ( @thingsiplay@beehaw.org ) 8•1 month ago
The Overwatchers.
- Nightweb ( @Nightweb@lemm.ee ) 9•1 month ago
Thank you!🙂
- iMastari ( @iMastari@kbin.social ) 3•1 month ago
Another great site that does this and is promoted by Nord VPN: Incogni
- Mora ( @Mora@pawb.social ) 23•1 month ago
“Promoted by Nord VPN” is a red flag in itself.
Could you expand on that?
- Quexotic ( @Quexotic@beehaw.org ) English5•1 month ago
It’s been 3 hours so I decided to go ahead and look for myself and I’m thinking perhaps they are talking about this: https://www.pcmag.com/news/nordvpn-actually-we-do-comply-with-law-enforcement-data-requests