Comment on DuckDuckGo Is Taking Its Privacy Fight to Data Brokers

• 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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      • mynamesnotrick@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Never used brave, I think DDG is actually a pretty decent search engine overall. I use it as my backup to searxng and used it primarily for years now before switching to searxng.

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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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      • mynamesnotrick@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Google results work fine for me on my home instance:

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      • herrcaptain@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If so, I wonder if that timeline lines up with when I was trying SearX. For the first few days I was blown away by the results, and then suddenly they became absolute garbage. I ended up switching back to DDG.

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      • hedge@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Wondering about this too 🤔

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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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      • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Cash out, get sued by angry customers, file for bankruptcy. Who cares about your public image being shattered when you are already gone with the wind?

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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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