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[–] ashtrix@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

I've been using DDG for the last year and pretty happy with it

[–] _jamie@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

It’s better than google, and so it’s a good start.

[–] felixculpa@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Hell yeah. I consider myself privacy paranoid and have been using DuckDuckGo for 5 years without any problems so far. It is pretty strict about its privacy policy.

[–] Philo@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What's wrong with startpage.com?

[–] DeadNinja@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago
[–] Sizably8826@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

There will always be some compromises and depends on your thread model. While DDG is not perfect, I still use it daily as it's not GOOGLE. I also try other search engine as well like Brave.

[–] FIST_FILLET@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

NO.

  1. it is US-based
  2. the CEO is the former founder of the “Names Database”

for the love of god, use anything but DDG. Qwant is EU-based and has decent results, SearX is another one which lets you choose between instances (or host your own).

please stop taking US “privacy” services seriously. i was hoping people would know better on here, compared to reddit

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