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  1. I *finally* made the switch from #Google to #DuckDuckGo for search.

    I have, for a long time now, only used Google (+ YouTube, etc) inside a Private/Incognito window, but it started to present captchas for every search because surely my behaviour (making Google track me a bit less) means I’m a bot.

    DDG has worked just fine for me the last couple of days, so I won't be going back.

  2. #duckduckgo "no ai" mode suggesting their AI while their search is down lol

  3. far as I can tell, most of us here on mastodon think google is evil

    but is there a *real alternative ?

    people often mention duck duck go, but far as I can tell, DDG is based on microsoft Bing, and MS is as bad, or almost as bad as G

    given that a modern search engine has to cost enormous sums of money to setup and maintain, I don't see how one can have a truly indepedent search engine

    #google #duckduckGo #microsoft #tech

  4. Duck.ai: La IA que no te vigila 🦆🔒

    Duck.ai es la propuesta de DuckDuckGo para usar modelos como GPT-4o mini, Claude 3.5 o Llama sin sacrificar tu identidad. Ofrece acceso anónimo, no guarda historiales en servidores y prohíbe el uso de tus datos para entrenamiento. Es ideal si buscas respuestas rápidas, resúmenes o código en un entorno privado, sin registros ni rastreo. ¡Inteligencia artificial con el "burn button" siempre a mano! 🔥🤖

    #DuckAI #Privacy #AI #DuckDuckGo #Tech #Anonymous #FOSS

  5. #DuckDuckGo

    Eine Ente und Ihre vier Ducklings in der Schleuse. Haben wir natürlich erst rausgeleitet bevor wir rein sind :))

    #Narrowboat

  6. I’ve added three new Duck.ai tools: a Spotlight-like quick chat switcher, a local, quick-pick prompt repository, and a keybindings cheat sheet.

    All three are userscripts, so you can pick and choose what you want to use.

    Links in the blog post. MIT license.

    #DuckDuckGo #DuckAI #UserScripts

  7. CW: genAI gripe

    It's just piling on at this point. This is #DuckDuckGo's summary of the Cleveland-Detroit NBA playoff series so far. And it's wrong, wrong, wrong. There has been no overtime game, the next game is Wednesday, and it's going to be in Detroit.

    I didn't ask for this summary and I shudder to think how much water was wasted on this garbage.

  8. This is why I like #Duckduckgo
    You can block the detritus from your searches. Sometimes I do want to know what the far right are saying, and I can search for that with Google, but the rest of the time I don't have to wade through the garbage.
    All search engines should do this. @ecosia #AUSpol #Search

  9. Nuevo artículo analizando diferentes buscadores alternativos respetuosos con la privacidad. Se agradece difusión y retoot -> alt43.es/analisis-de-motores-d
    #duckduckgo #brave #kagi #searxng #startpage #qwant #mojeek

  10. Der Browser blockt zwar Tracker von Drittanbietern, setzt aber selber welche. Nur mal so als Info

    #duckduckgo #tracker
    Sehen Sie, wie /e/OS mein Gerät vor Tracking-Versuchen schützt!
    Warum mobile App-Tracker eine der größten Bedrohungen für Ihre Privatsphäre und Freiheit sind: Lesen Sie unseren Datenschutzleitfaden unter e.foundation/wp-content/upload

  11. On that note: I could really use a nice plugin for #Waterfox (#Firefox compatible) that blocks AI websites... but until now I have found none. #duckduckgo just lets me block 5 sites... 😐

  12. A new blog post and a quick side project: two tools for exporting and converting chat history from Duck.ai web application.

    jsynowiec.github.io/posts/duck

    #DuckDuckGo #DuckAI

  13. Good evening Julie! 🩷🩵😺 @[email protected]! I hate #Google. They will waste a little more of my time and then no more. #DuckDuckGo didn't help my cause today either. I called victory and then my 200,000 plus bookmarks hit it right in the face and it died. LOL. Not confident about #Brave for that.

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iqg2yiw23eoox7krkdbpucqo/post/3mlb7qzyujc2f


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  14. Ich google ob es bereits #MRNA Impfungen gegen das Hantavirus gibt und das Erste was mir #Duckduckgo anzeigt ist eine Webseite von Imfgegnern. Traurig. Bei #Google kommen bessere Ergebnisse.

  15. lifehacker.com/tech/10-hacks-e

    DuckDuckGo offers more than private search, it also lets you try AI chatbots anonymously, filter AI-generated images, shorten URLs, and use other handy features that many users overlook.

    Here are 10 tips for getting the most out of it

    #duckDuckGo #DDG #Search #Privacy

  16. @papawilf @kagihq lately, my #duckduckgo search results contain many stupid AI generated websites. They magically seem to answer my question, but they're of course vague and mediocre. Is it everywhere or do you see that less with #kagi ?
    Any "filter AI results"?

  17. 最近、何かをオンライン上の英文を #Vivaldi :vivaldi_red: で読んでてわからない英単語が出てきたら

    1. そのワードを選択してコンテクストメニューから「Web search」を選択
    2. #Ecosia 🌳とか #DuckDuckGo 🦆の検索結果の言語を日本語縛りじゃないやつ(Ecosia だと"All regions" じゃないやつ)にしておくと冒頭に英英辞典の結果が出る(出ない場合も検索結果のほうにそういうサイトへの該当ワードのページが出る)のでそれを頑張って読む
    3. 英英辞典の説明(英文)がどうしても分からないときは、その説明を翻訳かける

    というのがルーチン化してきた。

    複数語の熟語の場合もたどり着くのが英英辞典じゃないケースがある以外はだいたい同じ経路。

    #Ecosia 🌳とか #DuckDuckGo 🦆は、検索結果ページに言語(検索結果で優先する言語)の切り替え UI があるので(Ecosia は "All regions" にしても日本語のページが上部に出てきたりして挙動が "?" な時もあるけど)楽に切り替えできるのと、
    これらの検索エンジンは #Vivaldi :vivaldi_red: との提携関係があるので検索時に :vivaldi_red: の収益が生まれる(らしい)のも個人的にはポイント :tony_smirking: