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Yeah, DDG skips all the sponsored links but I generally find what I'm looking for faster on Google if I just skip half the page rather than trying to find the right incantation to bring up what I'm looking for on DDG.
I've tried, many times over the years, to use DDG and you are 100% spot-on. I find it damn-near impossible to find what I need without some deep voodoo magic to somehow craft the perfect query. It's been a decade+ since I've gone to page 2 of a Google search. Using DDG I can be 3 or 4 pages deep before maybe finding the answer. There is SOOO much irrelevant stuff to filter through.
It sucks, I don't want to use Google, but there doesn't seem to be a great alternative.
just use a
!gif you don't get what you want the first time on ddg and you'll still get a proxied google search result.AFAIK !g on DDG doesn't proxy anything.
It does on SearXNG