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Asheville Charlie<p>Ok fedifam, I asked yesterday about if there's an online tool to check what ad tracking BS your <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/browser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>browser</span></a> is leaking and surprisingly got no answer so I got off my butt and hunted it down.</p><p>Unsurprisingly of course the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EFF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EFF</span></a> has a tool. </p><p>My <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/duckduckgo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>duckduckgo</span></a> browser with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mullvad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mullvad</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vpn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vpn</span></a> aced it.</p><p>How do YOU rate?<br><a href="https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">coveryourtracks.eff.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>edit<br>Make sure to test your browser as some clicks from Mastodon open their internal browser</p>
Michael / Chgowiz 🎲🎲<p>If you'd like to remove DuckDuckGo's AI features from a search, and get pre-slop results, try this:</p><p><a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?kz=-1&amp;kp=-2&amp;kak=-1&amp;kax=-1&amp;kaq=-1&amp;kap=-1&amp;kao=-1&amp;kau=-1&amp;kbg=-1&amp;kbe=0&amp;df=2001-01-01..2021-12-31&amp;q=%s" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">duckduckgo.com/?kz=-1&amp;kp=-2&amp;ka</span><span class="invisible">k=-1&amp;kax=-1&amp;kaq=-1&amp;kap=-1&amp;kao=-1&amp;kau=-1&amp;kbg=-1&amp;kbe=0&amp;df=2001-01-01..2021-12-31&amp;q=%s</span></a></p><p>(replace %s with your search term)</p><p>It disables all the AI features and it limits the search from 1/1/2001 to the end of 2021, right before ChatGPT came online and the slop began. </p><p>I know this means later info isn't searched, but it's getting harder these days to find new content. </p><p><a href="https://dice.camp/tags/Search" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Search</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DuckDuckGo</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a></p>
Stevez<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sauropods.win/@futurebird" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>futurebird</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@lnlyisol" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>lnlyisol</span></a></span> What about trying:<br>cute "ant" stickers <br>?<br>Works on <a href="https://witter.cz/tags/duckduckgo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>duckduckgo</span></a> every time 😊</p>
Estelle Platini<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://literatur.social/@v_d_richards" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>v_d_richards</span></a></span> <br>I certainly did not know either. But i searched for it – on DuckDuckGo 😄 </p><p>The core browser functionality of the <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DuckDuckGo</span></a> browser is the WebView component provided by the operating system. This means that the browser engine is <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Blink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blink</span></a> on Android and Windows [my last option], and WebKit on iOS and macOS [not an option in my poll].</p><p>Sorry for the complication.</p>
Keith Nasman<p>With "AI" getting jammed down our throat at every turn, I just set my default browser search to </p><p><a href="https://noai.duckduckgo.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">noai.duckduckgo.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/noAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>noAI</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Resist</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DuckDuckGo</span></a></p>
Vorinstanz :mastodon:<p><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> über <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DuckDuckGo</span></a> </p><p>Die <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Suchmaschine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Suchmaschine</span></a> unterliegt dem "USA Patriot Act" und "hat Behörden wie dem FBI, der NSA und der CIA ... Zugriff auf seine Server zu gewähren".</p><p>Europäische Alternativen nutzen, wenn es um <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a> und <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Datenschutz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Datenschutz</span></a> geht. Meine Schlussfolgerung fürs Erste...</p>
Hippo 🍉<p>Is there a <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/LibreWolf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LibreWolf</span></a> plugin that automatically says "Dislike AI" to <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DuckDuckGo</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> suggestions and then turns them off? :duckduckgo:</p>
Jan<p>Just realized that I still had the <a href="https://23.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> app installed on my phone. How I found out? Doing a "redirect to google" search in <a href="https://23.social/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DuckDuckGo</span></a> (using "!g") now opens the fucking Google app on iOS. 🙄</p>
i686-powered lia<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@marginalia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>marginalia</span></a></span> Like, with one single exception, my results for "adhd bullet journal" on <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DuckDuckGo</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> were all super verbose lengthy AI-generated nonsense advice that ultimately said nothing of substance.</p><p>And that exception is also just due to someone owning the domain "bulletjournal" verbatim.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/Marginalia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Marginalia</span></a> for me used to be just a fun toy or tech experiment, but now it's genuinely the only way I could possibly find information on some topics, even if I didn't want to. Crazy.</p>
JiKo<p>In your experience, which of these breaks apps/websites the most? (For example, the app freezes or crashes.)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Polls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Polls</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Apps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apps</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/AdBlocking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdBlocking</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DuckDuckGo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/uBlockOrigin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uBlockOrigin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/DataPrivacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataPrivacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/CyberSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CyberSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Poll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poll</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Website" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Website</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Survey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Survey</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Surveillance</span></a></p>
Armeline 😷 📚 🤬<p>Je viens de découvrir que DuckDuckGo (le moteur de recherche) a une IA active par défaut. <br>Pour s'en débarrasser, "modifier les paramètres de recherche" par la roue, aller en bas à "Fonctionnalités de l'IA", "gérer". </p><p><a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DuckDuckGo</span></a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/IA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IA</span></a></p>
Marco A. Lopez-Sanchez<p>Nice read <a href="https://bufferbuffer.com/i-work-at-google-but-i-dont-use-google-search/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bufferbuffer.com/i-work-at-goo</span><span class="invisible">gle-but-i-dont-use-google-search/</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/searchEngines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>searchEngines</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/duckduckgo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>duckduckgo</span></a></p>
Albert S.<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodont.cat/@cibersheep" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cibersheep</span></a></span> </p><p>Crec que és problema de duckduckgo. No deu indexar correctament o totalment les pàgines en català.<br>Jo tinc el mateix resultat.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/duckduckgo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>duckduckgo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/catala" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>catala</span></a></p>
Ramin HonaryCan’t escape the slop <p>I disabled <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/ai" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> assist on <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/duckduckgo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DuckDuckGo</a>, but even when I do, I still get a bunch of search results that point me to 100% AI-generated web pages. Nowadays anyone can just fuzz search engines like <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/google" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Google</a> for lists of commonly searched queries, then generate slop responses to these queries, then cache the slop, and then use shady SEO techniques to get these slop pages to show up at the top of search results. And this is what I have been getting from a lot of my web searches lately, content from slop shops.</p><p>A part of me thinks companies like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon may <em>themselves</em> be investing in these shady slop shops to deliberately make traditional search engines useless, which would “incentivize” people to use <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/llm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLM</a> -based AI like Gemini or <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/chatgpt" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChatGPT</a> more often, though that is purely speculation on my part.</p><p>If you had asked my 20 years ago that the <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/internet" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Internet</a> of the future would rapidly devolve and become increasingly useless as time went on, I would have dismissed you as a paranoid crackpot. Here we are in the future and I still can hardly believe how shitty technology is becoming.</p><p><a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/tech" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/rant" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rant</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/ai" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/enshittification" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#enshittification</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/searchengine" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SearchEngine</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/llm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLM</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/slopshop" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SlopShop</a></p>
El Duvelle<p>That's it, I am reaching my limit with the 'genAI' stuff. </p><p>I moved from <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> to <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/DuckDuckGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DuckDuckGo</span></a> years ago to avoid the privacy issues and avoid supporting a giant company that's destroying the planet - now DuckDuckGo keeps force-feeding me 'AI-assisted answers' that I DO NOT WANT. </p><p>I've been using <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> for at least 15 years, for the same reasons, now I update <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> and "what's new with Firefox" you wonder? Well Firefox has a "new sidebar" that lets you "keep your AI assistant handy" - an "AI assistant" that I DO NOT WANT.</p><p>Stop force-feeding us useless, invasive, energy-hungry 'AI' that nobody is asking for!</p><p>Any suggestions for a No-AI equivalent to Duckduckgo? As for browser, I'm going to move on to <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/Vivaldi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vivaldi</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/Browsers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Browsers</span></a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/NoAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoAI</span></a></p>
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Justin Ferrell

Update on this...

It's going great, honestly. This is the best experience I've had with all of my #DuckDuckGo experiments. I've made DDG the default search on every one of my devices and it's been fast and accurate every time.

If you also dip your toe in every once in a while, it's never been better IMO.

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Was trying a duckduckgo search for a restaurant in town, and I clicked on a link to read it, then came back to the search results. Suddenly a bunch of links disappeared and the first two links were now tripadvisor.

I selected hide site from these results and immediately a tripadvisor link from another url (different country) pops up. I kind of kept going and hiding about 15 results and new tripadvisor links kept popping up. This went on until "Search query entered was too long. Please shorten and try again."

So is this a bing-underneath thing, or direct enshittification of duckduckgo?

This is while using uBlockOrigin, but that didn't help, I didn't see any way that the ads differed from the normal links either.

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