My biggest annoyance with #DuckDuckGo is that it does not use #OpenStreetMap as the default #map provider when searching for place names. Is there a #searchengine that uses #osm by default?
I see that #duckduckgo now has its own browser. Is anyone else trying it out? #privacy I am pretty happy with #firefox but duckduckgo is my default search engine and so I thought it is worth comparing.
All Gmail is forwarded to DuckDuckGo which is then forwarded to Tutanota.
Set Google to delete emails after forwarding to DuckDuckGo, so Gmail will take up no space while I make the transition.
Of course, going forward I will give out only my DuckDuckGo email which will scrub my trackers. Additionally, I learned DuckDuckGo added a BLOCK list, which means, I can DuckDuckGo as an email firewall. 👍
My #firefox and #duckduckgo experiment is going well. But email feels like a bigger commitment along this #degoogle path. I looked at the usual suspects like Proton, Mailfence, Fastmail,etc. I also ran across #disroot (https://disroot.org). This is much more than just email! They offer #NextCloud#Cryptpad#Jitsi and all sorts of other stuff. A group of loosely aggregated open source stuff, and feels less seamless as a result. But definitely interesting. Anyone have any experience with them?
Decided to try @Mojeek as my default #SearchEngine (switching from #DuckDuckGo). I like that they have their own crawler, instead of just using #Microsoft's results. Let's see how this goes...
This is an old BBC News piece on data mining. Let's put it in context. My VPN has, in the past seven days, blocked nearly 40,000 tracking attempts by data miners embedded in the BBC News app on my Android phone. Forty thousand, and I'm paying for the data throughput.
"EU's #digitalservicesact protect users, harmful content, algorithms
Microsoft's Bing and LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok #dsa requirement give users option to have non-personalised feed BASED ON PROFILING"
⭕Want to talk to friends? Use #telegram not MS Skype
⭕Want to text/send files to friends? Use Telegram, not Meta WhatsApp
⭕Want to read/share info? Use Mastodon, not X or Meta
⭕Want to search info? Use #duckduckgo not Bing, Google
Voilà 15 ans que DuckDuckGo défie Google sur le terrain de la recherche en ligne, mais avec un argument de poids : pas question d’exploiter vos données personnelles.
For y'all who use #Strava (we don't), here's a heads-up we rec'd via #DuckDuckGo newsletter.
"Researchers found that... Strava's heatmap feature, which was introduced to 'anonymously aggregate users' outdoor activity (#running, #cycling, etc.) to help identify common trails and #exercise hotspots...[and]... provide a 'social' aspect to physical activity, can be 'de-anonymized' to identify people's home addresses... with a 37.5% accuracy rate."
Trying out #DuckDuckGo as the default search engine in Firefox. Pretty good for general searches, but not very good for doing any searches against the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission website, which is something I do regularly. ☹️
He ido a buscar las emisiones del #IconOfTheSeas (búsqueda: icono of de seas emissions) y las TRES PRIMERAS PÁGINAS eran solo resultados de la propia empresa y de sus filiales.
Hasta el final de la tercera página no he encontrado un artículo que hable de ello.
¿Alguien sabe de algún buscador que aún funcione como un buscador? ¿Que tal qwant?
253 intentos de rastreo en #Threads, identificados con la app #DuckDuckGo, en menos de 20 minutos y sin hacer nada.
Para que se hagan una idea de que tan invasiva y riesgosa para nuestra privacidad es la nueva red social de Mark Zuckerberg.
I use @duckduckgo in the same way, utilising #Bangs as and when I need to.
There’s even a Bang for searching for ethical brands and offers on Ethical Revolution. Simply type !ethrev with your search phrase. ✌️ #DuckDuckGo#TheOnlyWayIsEthics
btw i've been daily driving https://search.birdcat.cafe and the performance has been fucking phenomenal. please try out #searxng, it's really good and gives you search results from #google, #duckduckgo, #bing, #wikipedia, and more. you can also disable the ones you don't want to use! it's pretty sick 😎
Adventure today trying to make #DuckDuckGo my default search in #Firefox. All suggestions I found on web didn't work, incl. DuckDuckGo’s own Firefox extension or the service on Mycroft.org. I had to discover that search engines are stored in search.json.mozlz4 which is compressed using a special format instead of standard gz. It contained entries for DuckDuckGo and others, but they were marked hidden. Apparently Firefox ignores you when you try to install known-but-hidden search engines.
I'm trying to move from Chrome to Duckduckgo browser, but I'm missing some extensions, among which is Tampermonkey. Does anyone have an idea how to get it to work? Thanks!
How to get userscripts on duckduckgo browser?
I'm trying to move from Chrome to Duckduckgo browser, but I'm missing some extensions, among which is Tampermonkey. Does anyone have an idea how to get it to work? Thanks!