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I've been using duckduckgo for years now with no issues, but today I opened it and realized there were no longer any search results before scrolling. It was all ads/info cards. So I guess I'm looking for a replacement. Any suggestions?

Related: anyone know if there's a way in the Adnauseum Firefox extension to hide ads on a specific trusted site? I like their goal of not punishing ads following the do not track standard, but DDG has crossed a threshold and I now want to blacklist them specifically.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm partial to ecosia.org myself. Search while helping to plant more trees!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I do wonder how they get the money to plant these trees, hmm...

edit: oh, look at that! Even ecosia started getting into AI. Truly impossible for search engines not to get into AI territory these days, funny right? Even kagi did.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I use Qwant, a French search engine. Much better.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Is your adblocker not stopping them?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

OP, please reword the title to be a question. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I use DDG but caveat emptor it's using Bing as a backend. I find it is very good at certain things google censors like finding streams of obscure films though.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I mean, Kagi is just the best. I remember trying it like a year ago and I just forgot to switch back to anything else. It's that good.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah, but for those on a budget that subscription is a pain point. So long as you can afford it easy it is good because you are no longer the product, but that will keep allot of people at bay.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Read about it here, tested it, and was hooked on the first search. It's magnificent.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Searx ~~and startpage are~~ decent

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Startpage is the same as Google but apparently "proxied". There's also that bs with system1.

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