#DuckDuckGo

Emil Jacobs - Collectifissioncollectifission@greennuclear.online
2025-05-24

I've trialed #Kagi for its first 100 searches. Now that it asks me to move to a paid plan, I'm wondering: is it really worth the €10 a month or should I just stick with #DuckDuckGo? Its feature set is essentially the same as far as I can see and DDG runs an ethical business model with a strong emphasis on privacy as well.

2025-05-23

@sirber @fedops @timjan @vwbusguy

No; one must explicitly ask for those, and if on a desktop, must specify of exactly which model one wishes to view the crappy answers.

#search #searchEngines #google #degoogle #duckDuckGo #enshittification #AI #LLM

Dawn Tåke 🌙 :sparkletrans:Tourma@tech.lgbt
2025-05-23

Does anyone know of a search engine that doesn't have that much AI slop? I've been using DDG, but results have been getting bad of late. Finding a website I recognize is hard. I stopped using startpage under concern that it was using google's increased water from AI. But yeah.

At the same time, something with too obscure of answers might not work for my job. So I dunno.

#AskFedi #SearchEngine #DuckDuckGo #StartPage

Scott Williams 🐧vwbusguy@mastodon.online
2025-05-23

It's kind of crazy how #DuckDuckGo went from being the subpar search engine you put up with because it wasn't Google or Microsoft to becoming a legit better experience and it's mainly because of how insane the ad and AI pollution has gotten.

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-05-23

@CppGuy so it's not even a summary of the fictional character (i.e Jack Sparrow, Spock, Teal'c, …) it spewed out!

@tiamat271 @https Or just use #DuckDuckGo to search, which has an "Assist" option that lets you opt IN for the #AI glop if you want it.

Obrow :verified: :bloblurk:obrow@framapiaf.org
2025-05-22

@thelinuxEXP To add a custom search engine in Firefox, create a new entry in about:config

browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh
and set it to true.

You will get new add and edit buttons in search parameters.

Then go to this duckduckgo page to tweak url parameters to your licking.

duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help

Here is an example of a working url so you can see what it looks like:

duckduckgo.com/?q=%s&kp=-2&kae

base
duckduckgo.com/?q=%s
and then set your preferences.

#firefox #duckduckgo

konsensor :mastodon:konsensor@social.tchncs.de
2025-05-22

Oooookay. Es liegt an #Firefox. 🤬 Via DuckDuckGo ist ein Login ganz normal möglich und die macOS-App kann dann auch loslegen. Was ein Hickhack ey. 🥵 #Deezer #macOS #Firefox #DuckDuckGo #LoginGeshizzle

Jean-Luc 🚲🗺️🍻🔧jlgnt@pouet.chapril.org
2025-05-21
Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-05-20

@darkrat So it can't even regurgitate sample code based off existing documentation?

2025-05-20

"Duck it" is my new "Google it".

My partner and I recently had a discussion about the phrase "Google it." We've stopped using Google quite some time ago, but the phrase still keeps popping up in our conversations.

Nowadays, we use a variety of tools instead, and there isn't one clear winner.

I myself mostly use #DuckDuckGo and their Duck.ai. So I'm opting in to test this new phrase in conversations and see how people react.

Thibault Le Hégaratthibault_lh@mastodon.xyz
2025-05-20

Et merde, le moteur de recherche #DuckDuckGo vient d’ajouter une fonctionnalité #IA. On peut heureusement la désactiver complètement mais quand même, c’est décevant.

2025-05-20

à votre avis, est-ce que la fonction de commentaire d'un résultat dans #duckduckgo est utile et à termes efficace? Ras le bol des sites artificiels et insipides. #LabelFaitMainAvecUnCerveau

Jack Yan (甄爵恩)jackyan
2025-05-19

Does 's plan to cut off search APIs affect and the other Bing reskins?

John H "looking for work" :zenbrowser: :linux: :rick:mrclark@infosec.exchange
2025-05-19

Been running the #duckduckgo app tracker on my android phone. I already have network wide DNS filtering to block most crap.

Interesting to see apps that I haven't used in months suddenly trying to send out all sorts of details on my phone outbound.

#privacy #enshittification

2025-05-19

@isotopp Oh hat das auch Auswirkungen auf #duckduckgo?

veroandiveroandi
2025-05-19

Chrome is worth around $50 billion, DuckDuckGo CEO guesstimates.

OpenAI, Perplexity, and even Yahoo have said they would like to buy Chrome

"He described the difficulties smaller companies face in competing with Google's entrenched distribution channels and revenue-sharing agreements, which he characterized as the "root cause" of Google's dominance."

techspot.com/news/107677-chrom

Joaquin Sales :verified:jsales@mstdn.social
2025-05-18

Duckduckgo is showing less results than bing search engine???
#DuckDuckGo #duckfuckgo

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