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What "shit" did they "pull with their app"?
All I gathered from your post is that you want to ditch DDG because of a newsletter issue. Please explain your privacy and security concerns.
They allowed some company to track users (I don't remember which one but if i had to guess micrososft) it was a big thing at that time and they came out and said it was only for the people who used their mobile app and not the search engine . But come on they had to wait till someone caught them to come out ? That breaks some trust like how do we know right now they aren't pulling some shit and will come out with an explanation tommorow when someone catches them.
To prevent getting rate-limited I use it through SearXNG instance randomizers:
- GimmeASearX - Self hosted
- SearX NeoCities - Publicly hosted
These enhance the privacy even further.
DDG is not recommended anymore.
Ive been using kagi.com. Its pretty cheap. I use its AI features a lot as well.
I switched to Brave when DDG started censoring results. I lay to be excluded from ads, which is an option I appreciate.
