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  1. Does anyone know how to tell my new #Duckduckgo #browser to open 6 or 8 pages at startup? It only seems to be able to open one page, as 'home'.

    Anyone, please? 🙏

  2. Sold out currently, but #DuckDuckGo are selling “normal f***ing sunglasses” with an infinite battery life, zero cameras, and no notifications guarantee.

    knockaround.com/products/duckd

  3. This afternoon's notification.

    #SurveillanceCapitalism #DuckDuckGo
    #browser
    #scrabble #WordsWithFriends #Hoopla

    It has crossed my mind to post a fresh screenshot from the App Tracking Protection feature every time it notifies me that it has blocked new tracking attempts (2-3x/day), but I don't have time and it would crowd out other people's posts.

  4. Before #AI overviews, we had the #DuckDuckGo #ZeroClick info API which, honestly, while not perfect, was immensely superior.

    #NoAI #FuckAI #FuckLLM #LLM

  5. it seems that all the image results for "Sci Fi 2026" are AI including the photos

    #DuckDuckGo #SummerProject

  6. It's insane how much Google hates Wikipedia these days. It used to be that Wikipedia was always prominently linked in their cards, and one of the top two results.

    Just having to navigate through their terrible search results page to find a Wikipedia link alone is more than enough reason to switch to #DuckDuckGo or Brave Search tbh lol

  7. I also use #UBlock to hide results from certain websites in #DuckDuckGo, e.g.:

    noai.duckduckgo.com##li.wLL07_0Xnd1QZpzpfR4W:has-text(/amazon.com/)

  8. #duckduckgo tip: blocking duck.ai in your DNS seems to disable the AI features, even when in private tabs that do not remember your preferences

  9. Die beste Funktion für Smart Glasses ist, wenn sie gar keine Kamera haben. DuckDuckGo verkauft die perfekten Sonnenbrillen ohne WLAN, KI und Überwachungsgefahr für 35 US-Dollar. Ein großartiger und komplett ausverkaufter Protest gegen die aktuellen Metas dieser Welt.

    #DuckDuckGo #Datenschutz #SmartGlasses #Privatsphäre #AIGeneratedImage

    all-ai.de/news/news26top/duckd

  10. In 2026, Google’s AI defaults are pushing many creators to alternatives. A 12-query test finds #DuckDuckGo No-AI the best free day-to-day swap (55/60). Choose #BraveSearch for independent index, #Startpage for mainstream results without AI summaries, #Kagi if you’ll pay for control. searchenginewatch.com/best-goo 🔎🚀 #SearchEngines #News

  11. I am currently very annoyed by #Firefox and #DuckDuckGo browser because they don't support updating from a non-admin macOS user very well. Duck Duck Go is also very insistent on wanting to be updated throwing dialogs im my face constantly.

  12. Update on Bing use-case: quickly view a Gregorian calendar month display with new features and without Copilot noise.

    In 2024, I wrote about a use-case for Bing where it vastly outshines all other search engines. https://tantek.com/2024/287/t3/bing-use-case-calendar-month

    Since then, Bing has added “Copilot” LLM generated results to the top of search results by default, and unfortunately they add zero value to calendar month searches and displays. Worse, Copilot’s “summary” can often be long enough to push the actual calendar month display “below the fold” as it were.

    Solution: add " -ai" to your query.

    E.g. assuming you’ve setup Firefox search shortcuts as I recommended (https://tantek.com/2024/287/t2/setup-search-shortcuts-firefox)

    Type this into your Firefox address bar:

    b 2026 sep -ai

    or directly go to https://bing.com/ and enter: 2026 sep -ai

    and press return. You should see a days and weeks grid display for September 2026, with the current day of the month (the 9th as I’m writing this) selected in the displayed month.


    Note the new calendar month display features since I last blogged this in 2024:
    * Day 252 — day of the year! September 9th of 2026 is the 252nd day of 2026.
    * Week 37 — Sept 9th is also on the 37th week of 2026
    * 31 days later — Sept 9th is 31 days from today (August 9th).
    * < [ Sep v ] > – little anglebracket arrows on either side of the month button/dropdown to one-click nav to the prev/next month
    * [ Start Day v ] — a new “Start Day” drop down button to change which day of the week to display as the start of the week

    Amazing that despite already being far better than any other search engine for year month queries, Bing has *improved* its calendar month display search results, while Duckduckgo, Google, Yahoo are just as useless (yes I checked) as they were two years ago (I also tried Ecosia and it was no better). I am hashtagging them all to see if anyone at those other search engines notices and gets around to implementing a similar calendar month display.

    #search #webSearch #SearchShortcut #Microsoft #Bing #MicrosoftBing #BingSearch #BingTip #searchTip #calendar #month
    #CoPilot #NoCoPilot #NoAI #NoGenAI #NoLLM #Firefox #DuckDuckGo #Google #GoogleSearch #Yahoo #YahooSearch #Ecosia.

    #Blaugust #Blaugust2026

  13. DuckDuckGo verkauft erfolgreich völlig funktionslose 'Smartglasses'

    Als Antwort auf umstrittene Smartglasses bringt Suchmaschinen­anbieter DuckDuckGo mit einem Augenzwinkern ein Gegenmodell auf den Markt. Die Brille des Unternehmens verzichtet komplett auf Kameras sowie KI und setzt ein Zeichen für mehr Privatsphäre.

    #smartglasses #duckduckgo

    winfuture.de/news,160453.html

  14. DuckDuckGo's sunglasses fall into a product category we can only describe by what they’re missing. But what could be a term for this type of product?

    finest.day/posts/just-normal-d

    #branding #marketing #blog #blogging #PikaBlog #DuckDuckGo

  15. Warum werden bei alternativen #Suchmaschinen eigentlich meistens #ecosia oder #duckduckgo genannt?

    Meines Wissens hat #Startpage die besten Datenschutzbedingungen? Davon hört man aber sehr selten. Weder hier und noch weniger in der Öffentlichkeit.
    Ich nutze es schon als es noch Ixquick hieß.

    de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startpage

    de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosia#

    de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuck

    #Datenschutz

  16. RE: infosec.exchange/@adamhotep/11

    No camera. No AI. Just normal f***ing sunglasses. By DuckDuckGo.

    They only missed the chance to call them “Normal Ducking Sunglasses.”

    youtube.com/watch?v=xisVJhtmIU4

    #duckduckgo (anti-) #pervertglasses #video #ad #marketing

  17. Weird. I have worn anti-ai sunglasses for years. Decades. 🤣

    Gluten free, sugar free, etc.

    Not organic though.

    cnet.com/tech/mobile/duckduckg

    #ai #duckduckgo #humor