DDG has a noAI portal that filters out AI images and doesn’t bother you with summations and things. it’s available at noai.duckduckgo.com and you can add it as a separate search engine to Firefox thusly.
DDG has a noAI portal that filters out AI images and doesn’t bother you with summations and things. it’s available at noai.duckduckgo.com and you can add it as a separate search engine to Firefox thusly.
I don’t trust DuckDuckGo. I think they’re… Too clean, too friendly, too invested in the “teehee we are a cool brand” image. They’re also offering things that don’t make sense for a for profit organization (you can simply disable the ads? For free? And still use their infrastructure?).
I’d bet ten years from now we figure out they are indeed collecting user data, valuable user data because it comes from lowering the guards of users that otherwise block data collection attempts. For a government, for other companies, or both.
Listed: not a single legitimate reason to distrust them.
What do you think of their audits?
Apple also promised they were squeaky clean with your data. Snowden came along and shattered this illusion.
Even “independent” audits are not universally trust worthy.
Yes, but then at that point of distrust, we’d just be better living a caveman life without internet. Gotta draw the line somewhere!
Or I can use a self hosted SearXNG instance and not be a caveman? Or I can use the tool, but not glaze it online spreading it to others as if trust was a given?
And how do we know you’re not a Russian bot account?
You sound too squeaky clean….
You’re totally free to distrust me. I’m not sure how you think this would be a gotcha.
If I asked for your personal data and you gave it to me, I’d think you’re naive.