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With adblock enabled I feel like their results are often better than for example Duckduckgo. I recently switched to using DDG as my standard search engine but I regularly find myself using Google instead to get the results I’m looking for.
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With adblock enabled I feel like their results are often better than for example Duckduckgo. I recently switched to using DDG as my standard search engine but I regularly find myself using Google instead to get the results I’m looking for.
i think there are bigger things to worry about
I think hot dogs are good test subjects
good point
Creepy, maybe, but tons of people have done it. As long as they don’t share it, no harm is done.
Where is the harm of it
there is none, that’s their point
my revanced still works
tbh it feels like most people I know use chrome or even edge without any extensions
I remember them showing up in the mobile apps, before I discovered third party apps.
unfortunately they do
do they even have community standards anymore?
Games probably. If I’m browsing the store looking for new games, any games I’ve seen in ads will probably pique my interest more because I recognise them.
Same with food, movies, so many other things.
I support indie/small groups of devs who want some money for their work.
It’s just the rich companies I despise.
me neither I think? but it probably still subconsciously affects me
No I understand why websites show ads. I don’t understand why whenever I disable personal ads, I get a message saying “Are you really sure? If you disable this you won’t see your favourite ads anymore and only see ads for things you probably don’t want to buy. That’d be awful wouldn’t it?” and expect me to change my mind because that’s definitely not why I wanted to disable it in the first place.
They act as if people like to see ads because then they can buy stuff they think they want/need. And I’m getting afraid that’s actually true for a lot of people too.
From where comes the idea that personalised ads are good? I hate this timeline.
just imagine how dystopian our world would be if there was no EU
i wasn’t talking about using vpn in general, that’s ok, but using it to have Facebook steal your data is pretty wild isn’t it
why would anyone use a vpn to surpass an European law that cares about your privacy?!
My issue is mostly with image search results. DDG’s images tend to be less relevant than Google’s. DDG also lacks “smart” results (idk the official term).
For example when you search “rng 25” on Google, it will immediately present you with a random number between 1 and 25. On DDG you have to click on one of the search results and then use some website to generate the number.
Or when searching for the results of a soccer game, Google will immediately present all the stats to you, while on DDG you will only find some articles about it.
Of course it really depends on the kind of search and I’m sure DDG will regularly have better results than Google too.