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Do you think DuckDuckGo is a good choice for people who are concerned about their privacy?
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this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2023
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I use DDG every day as my default search engine across desktop & mobile. It’s good but the search isn’t as helpful as Google. If you need to you can just add !g to the search terms and get redirected to Google.
I'm not familiar with bangs (things like the !g you mentioned) but if you get redirected to Google doesn't that kill your privacy because you use Google instead of DDG? Or am I just misunderstanding the whole concept of bangs?
AFAIK, most indexes ddg uses come from bing. So it's not really a search engine with its own indexes on its own. I'd suggest using SearX, and if one is willing to sacrifice a bit of privacy over some data and stats gathering, then SearxNG.
Is DDG’s search results good, better, or about the same as Google or Bing?
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Is DDG’s search results good, better, or about the same as Google or Bing?
Is DDG’s search results good, better, or about the same as Google or Bing?
I prefer using DDG or Firefox, however my device I lower end and I find that Brave works best on it.
But I use DDG for my search engine.
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