_mark#introduction
In the process of:
* de-googling my life as far as possible
* Building my first NAS solution
* learning docker
* trying to kick my windows habit
Interested in automation, security, openstreetmap & other things
Sam Wight@_mark Any suggestions on how best to de-Google your life? I've tried DuckDuckGo in the past, but for some reason it never really stuck.
@samwightt
Any reason why you didn't keep using it?
I started by writing all the service I had then whether I still used them or not. The one by one looked for replacements or in the case of things like Google analytics I stopped using altogether.
Any reason why you didn't keep using it?
I started by writing all the service I had then whether I still used them or not. The one by one looked for replacements or in the case of things like Google analytics I stopped using altogether.
@_mark
I kids found that it didn't have as relevant results to me imo. DuckDuckGo couldn't match Google in local results, even when I gave it my exact location, and I just found that Google 'got' me a lot more than DDG. It was just easier to find what I was lookout for with Google. And thanks for the advice, I'll definitely look into doing that!
I kids found that it didn't have as relevant results to me imo. DuckDuckGo couldn't match Google in local results, even when I gave it my exact location, and I just found that Google 'got' me a lot more than DDG. It was just easier to find what I was lookout for with Google. And thanks for the advice, I'll definitely look into doing that!
witchlectical runeterialist@samwightt the trick with duck duck go is that you make it your default and only go to google if you have to
@anna
I did that for a month. DDG was mostly good for answering non-important questions that didn't necessarily have a right answer, but when I needed to find the answer to say a coding question, I had to use the !g bang.
I did that for a month. DDG was mostly good for answering non-important questions that didn't necessarily have a right answer, but when I needed to find the answer to say a coding question, I had to use the !g bang.
@samwightt yeah been there. its been getting noticably better over even the last couple months tho
@anna
Yeah, but it's still not there. Google just "gets" me; 90% of the time it understands exactly what I mean and returns the exact result I need. With DDG I feel like I have to wrestle the search terms a bit more and the results just aren't as relevant or accurate to the search query. Whether this be because of Google's data collection or if they just have better algorithms, I don't know, but for the foreseeable future I'll be sticking with Google.
Yeah, but it's still not there. Google just "gets" me; 90% of the time it understands exactly what I mean and returns the exact result I need. With DDG I feel like I have to wrestle the search terms a bit more and the results just aren't as relevant or accurate to the search query. Whether this be because of Google's data collection or if they just have better algorithms, I don't know, but for the foreseeable future I'll be sticking with Google.
@samwightt the "getting" you comes at the high price of it slurping up your data and preferences in the first place, and the point of using ddg is to get away from that
@anna
Yeah, but DuckDuckGo doesn't operate well enough as a search engine for me to be able to use it. Google takes seconds to find what I'm looking for while DDG takes minutes... That adds up. For me personally, I do not have much data to give Google and they have proven trustworthy enough with the data I give them, so I do not mind them using it.
Yeah, but DuckDuckGo doesn't operate well enough as a search engine for me to be able to use it. Google takes seconds to find what I'm looking for while DDG takes minutes... That adds up. For me personally, I do not have much data to give Google and they have proven trustworthy enough with the data I give them, so I do not mind them using it.
@samwightt and google is still better for local stuff due to like, the local guide program which uses an ethically questionable amout of unpaid labor
@anna
Local Guides work for no compensation. Yeah, you might get some perks, but the program is very clear in telling people that they are volunteers.
Local Guides work for no compensation. Yeah, you might get some perks, but the program is very clear in telling people that they are volunteers.