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Christine Lemmer-WebberSet up https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ as my default search engine
ಚಿರಾಗ್ 🌹✊🏾Ⓥ🌱🇵🇸 (he/him)@cwebber Same!
Stefan
Maxxi
plague-of-grackles 😷🍉🐈⬛
Annika Backstrom@cwebber Honestly it's pretty good. I very rarely pop in !g to double check the Google results (which are slowly degrading anyway)
NowWeAreAllTom@cwebber I finally made the switch recently too. I wanted to like DuckDuckGo for years but I found the quality of their results too much of a downgrade from Google (for the kinds of searches that I do). Now I've come around to DDG, not because their results have improved, but because Google's have deteriorated
Thomas Fuchs@cwebber I’ve been using Kagi for a while and (for me) it has better results.
Plus they’re incentivized to see me as customer, not as a blob of data to sell.
Of course they have their own problems too (like bad Safari integration).
Medea Vanamonde 🏳️⚧️@cwebber
Dump all Google Stock
Dump all Google Stock
Mx. Eddie R@cwebber
I did a while ago, it's so much better this way!
(For people who don't know, the full string to set is "https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%s")
Erwan 🚄@silvermoon82 @cwebber This string does not work for me when there is a / in the searched string....
@silvermoon82 @cwebber I suspect the / is not encoded by firefox inside the %s. But I rarely look for somethig with a /
How to switch away from Google as your default search engine right now!
Right click in the search box you want to add in Firefox, pick "Add search engine". So do that for the search box on https://noai.duckduckgo.com/
You can then select this search box as your default search inside of settings.
You're welcome! You can add all sorts of "search engines" this way!
@R1Rail @silvermoon82 This is great if you search a particular wiki pretty often, etc
Klara på Kråkmakargatan ❤️@cwebber @R1Rail @silvermoon82
I've heard lots of people use Wikipedia as their primary search engine for example. I've thought about trying it out, but it probably wouldn't work for the way I search. Interesting workflow though imo 
@silvermoon82 @cwebber @R1Rail
Librewolf (Firefox) has that as well! I use it quite a bit when looking for the package versions on distros my friends use, like @fedora [pkg] or @ubuntu [pkg]. DDG also has that built in but I use Ecosia on some computers so I also appreciate having it in browser :)
by looking at both strings and trimming the one from the right clicks I settled for
"https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?ia=web&q=%s" which allows me to look for "A/B testing".
Lou.@cwebber @R1Rail @silvermoon82 I wish firefox would sync search settings. I sync all my device have different default search engine. Also, Fx let you define extra "search engine" and I have some for the python doc, imdb, two final fantasy 14 wiki. But most of these are only on some of my devices as they aren't sync :(
Azahara@gkrnours
You can cheat by making the search engine a bookmark instead (this you have to do manually tho!)
You create a bookmark with the URL in the exact same format, then set the shortcut to the keyword you want for it. That syncs fine between pcs, i dont recall how firefox android does.
@cwebber @R1Rail @silvermoon82
You can cheat by making the search engine a bookmark instead (this you have to do manually tho!)
You create a bookmark with the URL in the exact same format, then set the shortcut to the keyword you want for it. That syncs fine between pcs, i dont recall how firefox android does.
@cwebber @R1Rail @silvermoon82
Fireye
passngrin@cwebber @R1Rail @silvermoon82
I did not realize this setting was there. I have another question: why is the URL from using the noai front page search different from the URL from other ways to use noai ddg? (search bar from browser and from search results)
I did not realize this setting was there. I have another question: why is the URL from using the noai front page search different from the URL from other ways to use noai ddg? (search bar from browser and from search results)
Maria Langer | 📝🛥️💎@cwebber @TimChaffee I switched to Kagi. Worth every freaking penny.
Tim Chaffee@TimChaffee @cwebber I'm finding that removing ads from my life is making my life better. Not only am I getting more objective search results — no sponsors! — but I also have a more distraction free search and browsing experience.
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JWcph, Radicalized By Decency@cwebber FWIW Startpage is no AI by default & they say (!) they will keep it that way.
Heathen 🐈@cwebber
I've been having a HELL of a time refining my searches on DDG though. -word seems to add more results relating to the word I was trying to exclude, and trying to convince it to return results with certain words just makes it return nothing at all. Also I'm only able to block 5 sites from results, which is about a quarter of the websites I never want to hear from.
I've been having a HELL of a time refining my searches on DDG though. -word seems to add more results relating to the word I was trying to exclude, and trying to convince it to return results with certain words just makes it return nothing at all. Also I'm only able to block 5 sites from results, which is about a quarter of the websites I never want to hear from.
Softwarewolf@heathen_cat @cwebber I've had some luck with -"term", but YMMV.
Barry Cook 🇨🇦@cwebber - its okay, but based in US - and despite its efforts at privacy - its still at the mercy of the demands of the current government agencies seeking info on use and users.
Better yet to find a search engine based elsewhere - say, the EU, which has much stronger privacy and security laws (even when applied upon governments) than US.
For my part, I either use Startpage or Ecosia.
Better yet to find a search engine based elsewhere - say, the EU, which has much stronger privacy and security laws (even when applied upon governments) than US.
For my part, I either use Startpage or Ecosia.
Ray McCarthy
vv 💫 [follow my new artist profile!]@raymaccarthy @cwebber yes, unfortunately they use Bing as the main source and it has different prioritization for some things than Google, like old helpful reddit posts
Richard RatheI did the same as soon as I heard it was an option. 👍
For those who may have only a partial picture, it is my understanding that:
1) Main #DuckDuckGo is Bing (Microsoft) under the covers, with the #surveillance bits removed. This is a good start IMO.
2) For some reason, DDG feels compelled to promote its version of "#AI Assistance". You can politely refuse, but as soon as you delete cookies the promotions return. They also have support for "good ads" (which I also politely refuse, and then they return unbidden). Both features should be "opt-in" and not on by default! 🙄
3) The "noai." prefix yields the same DDG with all the AI cruft removed (https://noai.duckduckgo.com). 🙂
Anyone have better information than the above?
MostlyTato@nickrauchen @cwebber
I need to try the no ai page. The normal ddg annoys me. Ofc it doesn't keep its settings if you clear cookies so it's constantly pushing ai at you.
I need to try the no ai page. The normal ddg annoys me. Ofc it doesn't keep its settings if you clear cookies so it's constantly pushing ai at you.
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Morgan Fletcher@cwebber me too.
Luna Lactea@cwebber I didn't know they had this.
sleepy62🍁🛠️ 🖥️ 🔬 🌞I continually amazes me how many people do not do this.
John Wilker 👨🏽💻@cwebber nice! me too now!
Tommi 🤯@cwebber How about https://mojeek.com
gizmomathboy, FC@cwebber in-fucking-deed
Kantikainen@cwebber they still have duck.ai it seems. So this page is their standart search with all the Ai features pre checked as off. Since duck has always had option to turn these off. I hope we can trust them not to still feed their ai model. Even if we are not using it is it using us?....or i am just way too paranoid over this! Good thing that duck this any way.
Cairo Braga@cwebber I've been using my own SearXNG instance for 3 years now and it's been great. NoAI DDG is my backup and the one I use at work.
@cwebber - good tweak to DDG, but as a search engine based on the US, it’s still liable to do the bidding of its government agencies, if those entities feel so inclined.
Privacy and security still at risk.
Privacy and security still at risk.