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- cross-posted to:
- asklemmy
- becomeme@sh.itjust.works
- hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fans
DDG is now offering free/private AI chat using several models.
DDG is now offering free/private AI chat using several models.
That is how DDG search works as well. They take your search query and send it to a regular, data harvesting search engine. The engine does not see your IP address and cannot track you with a cookie but they can monitor the search queries of DDG users in aggregate.
True, but anonymized search queries are much less personal than chats
Ddg doesnt work for search anymore, completely compromised giving the same results as google and others, exact same bubble you are in. I dont want personalisation
It works very well for me still. I haven’t noticed anything weird.
Hooefully it stays like that for you. For me I use it on all devices but they are all independent. If I search a random name it will find doctors etc. close to me with that name, down to my town. If I turn off location I will get a few general results and then back to localised.
It is incredibly annoying, especially when doing research as I cannot get out of the localised loop. Recently I needed a legislative policy from France but could not remember the name of the policy so I searched for the intention of the policy and got local results by local papers and local politicians discussing similar legislation. I could not get to the French results without using a VPN and I got very different results then.
There is also the concern then that ddg are sending my IP with the query. So I get bad results and no privacy.
True, but anonymized search queries are much less personal than chats