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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nz/post/38069529

EDIIT :

Apparently, there is an issue with the warning request to disable the ad blocker

I use Fennec F-Droid and Cromite, and I don't see this issue.

to get around the adblocker warning, use this link.

https://unwall.app/techcrunch.com/2026/05/26/duckduckgo-installs-are-up-30-as-users-reject-being-force-fed-googles-ai-search/

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[-] newton@feddit.online 36 points 4 days ago

You guys still use google ? 😂

[-] cRazi_man@europe.pub 10 points 4 days ago

It was trash long before AI. Now it is just speed running towards turning to absolute junk.

[-] hobata@lemmy.ml 29 points 4 days ago

What is a duckduckgo INSTALL?

[-] Trashboat 28 points 4 days ago

It’s when duckduck stays

[-] beveradb@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago
[-] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

It has a "browser".

It's a weird one that that relies on the OS default one.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 4 days ago

I thought it was just a chromium thing with a big ol delete history button

[-] gezero@sopuli.xyz 19 points 4 days ago

Up 30 percent from one week to the next. The ai is in works for years but the article is celebrating one week to week comparison.... Will there be a sad article next week when the numbers return to the mean?

[-] LostWanderer@fedia.io 11 points 4 days ago

Good, fuck Google and their agentic bullshit! I hate it so much, I stopped using the majority of Google services once I saw the directly they were going in. It's pretty nasty. Glad that DuckDuckGo is giving people a way out of gassed up LLMs (despite drinking from a similarly deranged well as Google).

[-] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 3 days ago

Ddg drinks from the Microsoft well, not Google's

[-] LostWanderer@fedia.io 2 points 3 days ago

DuckDuckGo has a similar ambition to make LLMs fetch, this is what I meant. Google is being dangerously extra about it, threatening the very existence of a web that we interact with in a sane manner (unless you use a different search engine).

[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Do they still allow Microsoft trackers?

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/duckduckgo-browser-allows-microsoft-trackers-due-to-search-agreement/

Searxng is the only real search engine alternative i found, no business ties to big tech, gives you results from multiple (configurable) public search engines at once.

Ddg always seemd like the most successful attempt to rebrand bing into something cool. Bing results can be useful but often meh.

[-] ekZepp@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Quickly remember. You can install waterfox (a Firefox fork with all the telemetry disable and no AI at all now or never) on any OS and also on android. Even on the android version you can install any ad block, you can also install an addon called Disable AI which automatically turn off the AI function from duck duck and other services.

[-] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 3 days ago

Ugh, but ddg gives me slop too

[-] DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago
[-] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 2 days ago

Wish it was opt in only, but I'll change my home page to this, thanks

Glad to see people making the switch. Who owns DDG? I'm hoping not big tech.

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