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DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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without stupid adblockblock https://archive.is/whZuI

also i wouldn't install their extension just for that, you can edit your default search engine to anu address you want in the settings

browser extensions are a huge privacy risk and i wouldn't trust ddg with my data because of their Microsoft deal, not to block their trackers (they reverted that part after the backlash) in the ddg browser and to only show msn under their news tab in regular ddg

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[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 31 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

It really sucks that to escape Google, the second in line that is "more private" is DDG and based in the US. So that means they have to abide to the american privacy invading "patriot" laws etc.

I wish we had a good European alternative that doesn't have to comply to the NSA when they want direct access to logs while giving you a gag order...

And I know searx-ng but last time I tried it wasn't good enough imo.

[–] sobchak@programming.dev 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Qwant is French. Not a privacy search engine and looks like it features AI now. Kagi is really good, but US based and expensive. I think most of Europe does intelligence sharing with the US ("14 eyes" or something like that)?

[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 1 points 8 hours ago

Yeah I used Qwant for 2/3 years. It wasn't really good either. I was constantly calling google through Qwant so it became pointless.

I think Switzerland would probably be a good place to host a search engine.

[–] BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

There is ecosia, although they also use the US indexes

[–] oce@jlai.lu 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

French Qwant and German Ecosia are building a EU based index together, but it will probably take time to be competitive compared to Google. https://www.eu-searchperspective.com/