Comment on DuckDuckGo Is Taking Its Privacy Fight to Data Brokers

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Then another one comes up, and the cycle continues

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  • lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I use Kagi. At least I’m the one paying.

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    • mynamesnotrick@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If it works for you… I agree with the general sentiment of “if its free you are the product”. However, I see kagi come up so often around here that I feel like it’s some astro turfing. I tried it and was not impressed. SearXNG is by far the best search engine I’ve used in a long time and the best part is I am hosting it locally on my PC, traffic is going out a VPN. You get the privacy and the best results possible since its a meta engine using many different engines.

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      • lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I tried it and was not impressed

        It is better than ddg and Brave, that much I can say. Brave especially have been shit recently.

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      • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Didn’t Google nuke SearX? Or did they only nuke public instances?

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    • rasakaf679@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you are naive enough to believe that they are not collecting your data. Good for you and your peace of mind.

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      • lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I feel like it’s a good way to get sued if you straight up lie to paying customers

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    • tesseract@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      These days, paying doesn’t guarantee your exclusion from being the product. The only way to guarantee privacy is to design it into the product.

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