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    9 months ago

    I stopped using them because I realized I was still selling my data for those trees. Went to Brave, left because image search is shit and ceo is a homophobe. Now I’m on ddg

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      9 months ago

      I’ve been trying out Searx the last few days since I saw a few people recommend it on another post. I’ve had varying results, and have had to go back to google a couple of times (and was genuinely shocked when it actually got me the results I was looking for, which Searx wasn’t even close on that time). Hopefully it gets better with time, and also we don’t find out it’s run by a bigot…

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        9 months ago

        I’ve also used searx but it’s kinda slow, I forgot all my reasons for not using it but I’m back on ddg and I’m pretty happy with it so far.

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        9 months ago

        Users that open a new private tab (also referred to as “incognito” by some users) in Brave will be presented with an option to select DuckDuckGo as their default search engine.

        I mean…you can set ddg as default in any browser

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          9 months ago

          That is not why I brought attention to this partnership. It was to point out that DDG was still willing to associate with and partner with Brave. Folks who are hyper-opposed to supporting Brave due to their CEO may not know this.