amosMay 1, 2023

Oh cool, DuckDuckGo now accepts pay-for-placement and doesn't review ads manually and so, now scam websites are in first position.

Cool cool cool.

edit: this is with uBlock Origin enabled, stop @-ing me

Show threadDavid AmadorMay 1, 2023
@fasterthanlime damn, it's my main search engine atm :(
Show threadnoodlejetski May 1, 2023
@djlink yeah, and the bangs make it really difficult to switch away from it.
@fasterthanlime
Show threadjakeMay 1, 2023
@noodlejetski @djlink @fasterthanlime It's a bit tedious but browsers support bangs through search keywords for search engines. While it's additional work to set it up, it works faster than DDG bangs since you don't go through redirect request
Show threadjake
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/assign-shortcuts-search-engines
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95426
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftsearch/edge-shortcuts
Assign shortcuts to search engines | Firefox Help

How to search faster with search shortcuts.

May 1, 2023 at 1:50pmWeb