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DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being ‘force-fed’ Google’s AI Search (techcrunch.com)
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Apparently, there is an issue with the warning request to disable the ad blocker

I use Fennec F-Droid and Cromite, and I don't see this issue.

to get around the adblocker warning, use this link.

https://unwall.app/techcrunch.com/2026/05/26/duckduckgo-installs-are-up-30-as-users-reject-being-force-fed-googles-ai-search/

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[–] Yliaster@lemmy.world 13 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

DDG isn't the holy grail people make it out to be; it has contracts with Microsoft and we all know how Microslop likes AI.

[–] sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works 15 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

No, they're not, but they are one of the better-known alternatives to Google, and they do advocate privacy. This, in itself, is a good thing and should be promoted.

The problem is that Google's monopoly on web search is so large that using Google is the de facto standard for the vast majority of people. Getting them to acknowledge that there are alternatives to Google benefits privacy on the internet more than DDG having contracts with MS harms it.

[–] Yliaster@lemmy.world 1 points 50 minutes ago

Switching from Google to MS/Bing isnt really much of a privacy win.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

DuckDuckGo literally uses Bing for search results.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 4 points 12 hours ago

Why should I literally care?

[–] Tenderizer@aussie.zone 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

What's the alternative? The basically unusable Mojeek? Rawdogging Bing? SearXNG?

[–] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Qwant and Ecosia teamed up to make a European indexer/web crawler. They're still using Bing to pad the result quality for now but slowly phasing out reliance on Bing from what I understand.

Still, they also push AI so can use this argument:

https://www.qwant.com/?llm=0

Ecosia have to use cookies unfortunately to disable AI overview:

https://www.ecosia.org/settings