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daannii@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For your private browsing tabs: noai.duckduckgo.com

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• EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I use it now. On Firefox.

  This is how it’s done.

  I haven’t googled anything in years.

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  • modus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So what verb do we start using then? Duckling? Ask Jeeving? Yandexing?

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    • Makeshift@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Honestly just “searched” is probably fine.

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      • tomi000@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah. In this day and age noone will think you went to a library to look it up.

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    • Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Just use “search”; we don’t want to make a company name the new synonym for search otherwise we are stuck with that company when it gets evil

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    • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Googling. That’s how you invalidate a trademark.

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      • logi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Thanks. I might just Hoover up your ideas and Xerox them for my Ziploc of tricks.

        *I’m not American and would never use any of those words.

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    • EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Search

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    • AmyAye@nord.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Searching.

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    • Mooserider@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m actively still using “google” to turn it into a common verb and make Alphabet lose the rights to the word.

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    • scytale@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I use ddg or ddg’d.

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    • daannii@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Quaking ?

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  • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nah, use it on the DDG browser for extra cool.

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  • DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m trying to not use Google or YouTube starting this month at least for this month. (i.e. September 2026)

    (So far so good. :)

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• im_fine_sandy@nord.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve switched to kagi.

  It’s not free, but it’s absolutely the best IMO.

  When I search something I don’t see an AI summary. Not sure if I disabled that or not.

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  • jh34@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It only triggers if you end the query with a ? or you can turn that off too in the settings kagi.com/settings/ai

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• FluidBeef@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wanted to use Ecosia but they won’t let you 100% disable AI, which is fucked for a supposedly green venture for so many reasons.

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  • Samsy@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For 8 searches we burn a tree with our AI.

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• Space_Cowboy92@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  DuckDuckGo now has their own browser that blows FF out of the water.

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  • jnod4@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If its chromium then don’t bother, let’s not forget how Google tried to take over the Internet through chromium browsers

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    • Space_Cowboy92@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Damn :( I just looked and it is. Back to FF!

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      • moopet@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I thought the DDG browser was Firefox with some branding and plugins?

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  • Yaky@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    On iOS a few years ago, I prefered it to FF or Safari.

    However, its “tracker protection” is questionable sometimes. They will list Google or Meta as enabled on site “to prevent breakage”, but do not give user an option to still disable it.

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