• fidibus@lemmy.161.social
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    3 years ago

    pretty cool! This shows that people will switch to better privacy solutions if they have clear branding and are easy to use. I wish there was an open-source and decentralized alternative to ddg

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      3 years ago

      I wish there was an open-source and decentralized alternative to ddg

      I think searx would fit that definition. is FOSS, self hostable, and in my experience (of 2 days searching with it xD ) its results are better than ddg.

      there’s also a tutorial about choosing a random instance for each search here. the only problem is that some instances don’t function well. so you might need to search again.

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          3 years ago

          I mean ddg is also mostly Bing results, and when bing’s policy changes it affects ddg, so searx can kinda be similar?

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        3 years ago

        You could also use the Privacy Redirect extension, which amongst other things can redirect your search engine to more private ones. In particular it has various instances of Searx, and rotates randomly among them

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    3 years ago

    sorry but DDG has terrible search results comparing to Google. and i am still sticking with them just to support.