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Any duck duck go alternative that is better in privacy and security ? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by THEDAEMON@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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I have always liked and used Duck duck go more than google but now i am considering if i should switch because of the shit they pulled with their app and yesterday when i clicked a link it took me directly to their newsletter subsciption page not even like a popup a proper page without any way except manually backing out . So is there a better alternative or is DDG still the best ? Would appreciate if the search ingine came with firefox and i don't have to jump through hoops to use it. I moved the post from ask lemmy to here .And also i deleted the post from ask lemmy because i thought it wasn't the appropriate sub (i know should've thought of that before posting )

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[–] voluble@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

All I want is a search engine that 1. doesn't make moral judgements on the results relevant to a search, 2. filters out ai and ad farm results by default, and 3. can be toggled to effectively search web 1.0-style forums.

[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Search results were amazing back in the day. There were like a couple 100 good websites and it was all just text indexes.

The web is simply too big not to do ranked searches.

The big problem is how they are ranked though.

[–] voluble@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Interesting.

I hope for a new paradigm in web searching. I wouldn't even mind if a search took 5-10 minutes, if it meant a handful of quality results. I easily waste that much time or more sifting through garbage ai and ad-driven results as it stands.