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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use an app called TrackerControl on my Android phone, and it caught several trackers on DDG, so I stopped using it. Do I know for certain that the app is absolutely accurate? Nope, but it's a good FOSS that I have been using for a long time and developed a trust relationship with, so I'll avoid what it warns me about. App is available on F-droid if anyone wants to try it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year 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.

[–] DeadNinja 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I use DDG every day as my default search engine across desktop & mobile. It’s good but the search isn’t as always as helpful as Google. If you need to you can just add !g to the search terms and get redirected to Google.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's wrong with startpage.com?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

AFAIK, most indexes ddg uses come from bing. So it's not really a search engine with its own indexes on its own. I'd suggest using SearX, and if one is willing to sacrifice a bit of privacy over some data and stats gathering, then SearxNG.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] Sizably8826 2 points 1 year 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.

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