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Malin<p>Is it just me, or is DDG not working?</p><p><a href="https://dice.camp/tags/ddg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ddg</span></a></p>
Patrick 🇮🇪 :verified: 🦣<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://tilvids.com/accounts/thelinuxexperiment" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>thelinuxexperiment</span></a></span> My favorite SE is <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/DDG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DDG</span></a>, then <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/BraveSearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BraveSearch</span></a>.</p>
you╭👺+300╭🐈x5╭⁂+3╭(Ⓐ+a<p>anyway check these fuckers out with the memorable filename. top <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ddg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ddg</span></a> 0mp result 7.90CHF for one of these, which certainly should be had instead for two bucks. 96 of these gimme 96x16 hci scale pixel display. just remains to finagle a translucent touchscreen overlay outta something. or play it with 8 cherry switches on either end like an oversized <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/psp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>psp</span></a>? :D</p>
James House-Lantto (He/Him)<p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/667517/microsoft-bing-search-api-end-of-support-ai-replacement" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theverge.com/news/667517/micro</span><span class="invisible">soft-bing-search-api-end-of-support-ai-replacement</span></a></p><p>Microsoft will shut down access to its Bing Search APIs for most third-party developers on August 11th, decommissioning all existing instances. However, some major users like DuckDuckGo will continue to have access after the cutoff, according to Wired.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Search" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Search</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DuckDuckGo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DDG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DDG</span></a></p>
Arjan Boltjes<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DuckDuckGo</span></a> extension installed in FF.<br>I noticed an "advertisements" in the settings, opt-out.<br>Besides helping to spread <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DDG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DDG</span></a>: <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/spread" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">duckduckgo.com/spread</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> perhaps a donation link is a nice addition there. But I understand they don't take donations.</p><p>Instead, they ask to disable ad blockers.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uBlockOrigin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uBlockOrigin</span></a> installed.<br>Sorry, not sorry. ;)</p><p>Also, location use disabled, and all AI features of the extension. Useless and a waste of resources as far as I'm concerned.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a></p>
Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://zirk.us/@grammargirl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>grammargirl</span></a></span> For a long time I was using <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/DDG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DDG</span></a> and when they finally added AI I could set preferences to not show AI but every time it updated the AI would come back. So I dumped DDG. Now I use <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Startpage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Startpage</span></a> as my default search and...there's just no AI at all.</p>
RBuzz<p>Przez przypadek na swiezo postawionym systemie uzylem google do wyszukania konkretnej strony ze skryptem, ktory <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ddg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ddg</span></a> oddaje jako pierwszy wynik. Nie znalazlo, albo nie bylem na tyle zdeterminowany, zeby sie przekopac przez 3 strony reklam. Nareszcie, Kaczor wygrywa z Wujkiem Gówno. Wystarczyło poczekać, sami sobie nasrali do miski.</p>
The artist Chloe G<p>Duck Duck Go is showing me ads at the top of the results. And uBlock origin isnt blocking it. So fuck DDG.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/ddg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ddg</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/duckduckgo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>duckduckgo</span></a></p>
ferrie=differentieel :mfrl:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.nl/@mboelen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mboelen</span></a></span> ook - alleen <a href="https://mastodon.frl/tags/DDG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DDG</span></a><br>zelfde reden als <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.nl/@ovb69" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ovb69</span></a></span> ⬆️</p>
Steffen Voß<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fed.mthie.com/@mthie" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mthie</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@derbruesseler" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>derbruesseler</span></a></span> Vielleicht ist Dein Login für Dich relevanter als für mich. Aber bei mir wird der nicht ganz oben angezeigt. <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/ddg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ddg</span></a></p>
Steffen Voß<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fed.mthie.com/@mthie" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mthie</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@derbruesseler" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>derbruesseler</span></a></span> Das dachte ich mir fast ;-)</p><p>Aber ich wollte damit auch nur sagen: Vielleicht habe ich mir inzwischen eine Art angeeignet, mit der ich bei <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/ddg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ddg</span></a> alles finde, was ich suche.</p>
mthie®<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/@kaffeeringe" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>kaffeeringe</span></a></span> Ehrlich gesagt empfinde ich es wie <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@derbruesseler" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>derbruesseler</span></a></span> - die Gewichtung der Suchergebnisse bei <a href="https://fed.mthie.com/tags/ddg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ddg</span></a> sind echt nicht gut. Google hat mal gesagt, dass sie Kontexte mitberücksichtigen.<br>Wenn also jemand ein Dev ist und zum Beispiel nach "Go" sucht, wird er mit großer Wahrscheinlichkeit nicht das uralte Spiel aus Asien meinen.</p><p>Diese Kontexte ignoriert DDG und hat dadurch teilweise bescheidene Ergebnisse, obwohl es datenschutztechnisch bestimmt sinnvoll ist.</p>
Steffen Voß<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@derbruesseler" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>derbruesseler</span></a></span> Ich glaube, es ist wie auch bei Leuten, die sich nicht von Microsoft lösen können:<br>✋ Wenn man bei <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DuckDuckGo</span></a> etwas nicht findet, ist <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/DDG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DDG</span></a> schlecht.<br>👉 Wenn man bei <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> etwas nicht findet, hätte es eh kein anderer Dienst besser gemacht.</p><p>😄 </p><p>Ich suche seit Jahren prima mit <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/ddg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ddg</span></a> und in nur immer selteneren Fällen hänge ich der Suche noch ein !g an, damit die Anfrage an Google weitergeleitet wird.</p>
Der Brüsseler 🇪🇺<p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DuckDuckGo</span></a> ist mal wieder großartig. Ich suche eine Webseite. Die erste Seite mit Suchergebnissen bezieht sich auf besagte Webseite und erst auf der zweiten Seite finde ich den Link. </p><p>Ich weiß nicht warum ich weiterhin <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/ddg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ddg</span></a> eine Chance gebe. Die Suchergebnisse sind einfach nur suboptimal. <br><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Suchmaschine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Suchmaschine</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/searchengine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>searchengine</span></a></p>
Thor A. Hopland<p>I'm not going to lie...</p><p>The <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DuckDuckGo</span></a> <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> assistant is actually fire.</p><p>You ask any other chatbot about political stuff and they'll go "LALALALALALA!!! I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!</p><p>You ask <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/DDG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DDG</span></a> though? "Sure, fam - here you go, along with some news regarding the subject".</p><p>That's good <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/chatbot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chatbot</span></a>! *Pat-pat*.</p>
Carl (He/Him)<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tenforward.social/@McWabbit" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>McWabbit</span></a></span> I have literally never seen this in constant, daily use of <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/DDG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DDG</span></a>. What browser do you use? I use it in Firefox (home) and Edge (work), both Windows and Linux. Hm, and Android (personal) and iOS (work).</p>
Asbestos<p>My god web search is so bad. <br>You put in say "Barbra Wordsworth math program" <br>You get 15 results about any sort of math, then a few unrelated Barbra Wordsworth (fair enough) then about a dozen results about words and then a mix of random math and words links. |<br>It's like an annoying guy who won't listen and only hears about 10% of what you say and just keeps insisting on saying the same sort of shit. <br><a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/search" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>search</span></a> <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/DDG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DDG</span></a> <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/bullshit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bullshit</span></a></p>
just small circles 🕊<p>First Blood was popular. And now First Truth internet search.</p><p>Same as Rambo wasn't real, yet made many people want to kill other people violently. Now DuckDuckGo's basic Truth isn't real, as first search result is an alternative fact. Is violence involved too? Killing society.</p><p>Snapshot shows DDG's search result explains the word "plaid" as "financial technology company that enables users to connect their bank.." 🤯</p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DuckDuckGo</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/DDG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DDG</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Enshittification</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Newspeak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Newspeak</span></a> #1984 <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Hypercapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hypercapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/search" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>search</span></a></p>
Bob LeFridge :tinoflag:<p>Duck Duck Gone.</p><p><a href="https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/duckassist/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help</span><span class="invisible">-pages/results/duckassist/</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.nz/@bitsmith" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bitsmith</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/AIslop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIslop</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/DDG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DDG</span></a></p>
צבי הנינג'ה🟣<p>Still have doubts whether internet search is enshitified beyond hope?</p><p>I give you exhibit A:<br><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@circafuturum/113836985279944812" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">infosec.exchange/@circafuturum</span><span class="invisible">/113836985279944812</span></a></p><p>After searching <a href="https://tooot.im/tags/ddg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ddg</span></a> and [blush] <a href="https://tooot.im/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a> blue in the face, all I've found is a call for Andy Yen to resign (with no explanation why) on <a href="https://tooot.im/tags/reddit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reddit</span></a><br><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1i2ff6q/call_for_andy_yen_to_resign/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/commen</span><span class="invisible">ts/1i2ff6q/call_for_andy_yen_to_resign/</span></a></p><p>Luckily, mastodon folks (later down the thread) point to a screenshot by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>aral</span></a></span><br>[which is *most probably* it]:<br><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/113833860977088538" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.ar.al/@aral/113833860</span><span class="invisible">977088538</span></a></p><p>[edit] Another candidate: <a href="https://archive.md/lBQd8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.md/lBQd8</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>All we have is each other</p>