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minus-square@dunz@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglish15•edit-21 year agoI use Qwant for my searches. I find the results better than DDG. https://www.qwant.com/
minus-square@rdri@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish18•1 year ago Thanks for your visit Unfortunately we are not yet available in your country. And no way to set my country.
minus-square@affiliate@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish13•1 year agoyou could set your country with a vpn 😎
minus-square@rdri@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish12•1 year agoThat’s less than optimal, for a website that is to be used as a search engine.
minus-square@iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish5•1 year agoThey also don’t allow country/located results but then in English. Hell, English is one of the legally accepted languages of this country :(
minus-square@Got_Bent@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish13•1 year agoWhoa. I did a search that would inevitably bring nothing but sponsored bullshit on Google - “best tires” My results were cartalk, consumer reports, cnet, and the consumer insider. Nary a national chain trying to sell me something in sight.
minus-square@slumberlust@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish6•1 year agoAren’t all of those sites just more adverts masquerading as information?
minus-square@baseless_discourse@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglish6•1 year agoI think they got removed from privacy guide unfortunately. https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/pull/342 I want to support a European based service, but unfortunately I have to stick with DDG for now.
minus-square@maness300@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish0•1 year agoI wonder why Firefox isn’t listed in their mobile web browsers.
minus-square@baseless_discourse@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoThey actually explained that Android browsers must use the Chromium engine. Unfortunately, Mozilla GeckoView is still less secure than Chromium on Android. probably referring to the lack of pre-process site isolation on firefox.
minus-square@Toldry@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year ago“DDG” refers to DuckDuckGo just writing this for others who might’ve been confused like i was before looking it up
I use Qwant for my searches. I find the results better than DDG. https://www.qwant.com/
And no way to set my country.
you could set your country with a vpn 😎
That’s less than optimal, for a website that is to be used as a search engine.
They also don’t allow country/located results but then in English. Hell, English is one of the legally accepted languages of this country :(
Whoa. I did a search that would inevitably bring nothing but sponsored bullshit on Google - “best tires”
My results were cartalk, consumer reports, cnet, and the consumer insider.
Nary a national chain trying to sell me something in sight.
Aren’t all of those sites just more adverts masquerading as information?
I think they got removed from privacy guide unfortunately.
https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/pull/342
I want to support a European based service, but unfortunately I have to stick with DDG for now.
I wonder why Firefox isn’t listed in their mobile web browsers.
They actually explained that
probably referring to the lack of pre-process site isolation on firefox.
“DDG” refers to DuckDuckGo
just writing this for others who might’ve been confused like i was before looking it up