• upstroke4448@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    DDG is more of a privacy frontend for Bing then its own search engine. Typically if its not on Bing its not gonna be on DDG.

    Works on both Brave and Google via Mullvad Leta

  • Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Is it a surprise? Bing is controlled by M$, and their search results are taken by Qwant and DDG. Ecosia also runs with google results so it isn’t affected.

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      3 days ago

      Jokes on you, i tried using qwant and they just straight up deny me access because using a VPN apparently is “suspicious”.

  • 𝔽𝕩𝕠𝕞𝕥@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    Damn shame. I use DDG, but them consistently fucking up makes me want to switch. Though i don’t know of any alternatives.

    edit: thanks for the recommendations!

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      Kagi. Privacy focussed, no ads, and excellent results with options for sorting preferred sources to appear at the top, or not. Costs money but man, it’s fast and good in the way Google was back in the day. Some plans also include anonymous access to a variety of LLMs though they are older models, and if they can run them locally, they do. Really liking it.

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        FWIW the founder of Kagi is adamant that subscribers must accept part of the subscruption money being sent to Russia (Yandex, fully govt-controlled) and has refused all attempts at excluding it. When questions started appearing he even tried claiming Yandex isn’t even russian.