Switching to DuckDuckGo has been a breath of fresh air for me. No ads, runs faster, and no personalized search results.

@edumacat3d

4 ай бұрын

google forces me to confirm im not a robot every search

@loopernagic4658

4 ай бұрын

@@edumacat3d I had similar case. I switched to DuckDuckGo because google ask me for login or cookie agreement everytime I visit it.

@darshanravi7688

4 ай бұрын

it's really just bing, the results aren't nearly as good

@ridass.7137

4 ай бұрын

you can switch on iphone settings > safari > search engine Im giving it a try

@Teymuur

4 ай бұрын

the result are also filtered now duckduckgo used to be good couple years ago now privacy wise it is almost the same as google you can use ecosia or brave search where you can easily switch to other switch engines with one extra keyword at the end of the search

Pro tip, if you are having trouble finding, shall we say, "legally dubious" sources of movies or TV shows, switch to duckduckgo. The websites still exist, they are just being heavily suppressed by google.

@Marta1Buck

4 ай бұрын

fellow pirate

@freespiritable

4 ай бұрын

I've noticed if you go anonymously on Google you'll have better results and have these websites as results.

@MangaGamify

4 ай бұрын

It would be fine for fellow 🏴‍☠ if all they alter are political search results like left wing something, but they also not show stuff that's against DMCA. That was their last chance, they can support themselves or their circle of friends.

@Macheako

4 ай бұрын

Ayyye, ye can confirm this, mateys 🏴‍☠️ 😂

@TheRivalryDrifting

4 ай бұрын

had leave ddg cus it was blocking some of those websites but its posable that thay pissed of thare users enough to stop blocking them now. honstly them doing it ounce is a reson to never use it again cus unfiltered resatls was the hole reason to use ddg

Duck Duck Go has been my go to for about 5-6 years now. Cleaner search results and not laden with advertisements.

@majordelays4909

4 ай бұрын

Fick Fick No?

@winio437

4 ай бұрын

I prefer startpage

@shotoprince2525

4 ай бұрын

Boring

@vizzo1138

3 ай бұрын

Whats more interesting than people switching to Duck are the people who seem to not know what adblockers are. I haven't seen an ad on Google, KZread, Twitch, so forth so on for over a decade. Its one press of a button, self installs and you forget it even exists until you see one of these ad viewing people complaining about it.

Straight up the one reason I switched is because Google can never literally find what I'm looking for nowadays, so I might as well make all my pointless searches on a website that isn't run by a company that's actively making the world a worse place

@EnnayXIX

4 ай бұрын

Sounds like you're using search engines wrong

@TheRivalryDrifting

4 ай бұрын

the reason i started using duckduckgo 3 years ago was cus i wanted a search engine that didint fuck with the search results. and also its the same reason i stoped using duckduckgo a year ago. at some point they started blocking results for sites that ware known for pirate streaming. i wasted way to much time trying to find a movie for a coworker that you litraly cant even buy or rent anymore. now i use braves engine and google for images as braves image search ant great.

@CathrineMacNiel

3 ай бұрын

@@EnnayXIX except google really sucks now when it comes to finding stuff.

@aneeshprasobhan

3 ай бұрын

google search is getting worse for me as well @@EnnayXIX

@rap3208

3 ай бұрын

they hide things (or bury them under tons of pages) that are political like when it comes to China, Russia etc. especially in these uncertain times. Articles that they used to show in the first page now is really really hard or impossible to find, ihad to use other search engines.

It doesn’t surprise me that Hari doesn’t know anyone who uses DuckDuckGo. He also has said that he’s NEVER met a single person that uses Facebook messenger. Does he know anyone?

@raylopez99

4 ай бұрын

Seems like he has a life outside of net. I only know of one person who uses FB messenger, and that's my partner to talk to her friends.

@rogink

4 ай бұрын

@@raylopez99 That's ridiculous. I don't 'use' Messenger but my tiny business has people contacting us by FB. So I need to reply with Messenger.

@LogicallyAnswered

4 ай бұрын

Hahaha

@LogicallyAnswered

4 ай бұрын

I think I live in a western bubble where people only use iMessage, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, KZread, and Google 😂

@hewhohasnoidentity4377

4 ай бұрын

To be fair, I don't use Facebook messenger, so I wouldn't know if anyone I know does use it.

Google has mangled their search engine to the point where it is practically useless.

@pixell3607

4 ай бұрын

that's quite a stretch, care to explain how google mangled itself? I'm not very educated in this subject

@CAFFIENEHOUND

4 ай бұрын

They change your search to get higher ad pay rates, for example enter search terms "Children's Clothing" and get results for "Ralf Loren Children's Line" because RL pays more per click than GAP or whomever. Plus boosting AI hallucinations to top 3 search results because of high pay per click versus sites with accurate information.

@Fulano5321

4 ай бұрын

​@@pixell3607 I think the easiest way to see that is to just try other search engines. I use Brave myself which has the button to check the same search result on other major engines. Lately every time I've checked the results on Google they're significantly less useful, mostly being taken over by content farming websites that don't actually provide useful content. I've heard it's due to reasons like large language models plus good Google search engine optimization that people are able to brute force traffic to their website to make money, rather than the site being brought up based on it's usefulness. Then there's things like Google's automatic answers being wrong much of the time and not caring if you report it, or their blatant bias in the results, and that covers a lot of how they've "mangled their search engine". I can't even get Google to bring up useful results most of the time even when using their advanced search option.

@asdfghyter

4 ай бұрын

@@pixell3607 for example, if i search for something specific, with just two keywords, i will often get results with only one or even none of my keywords and it tends to replace my words with synonyms for the wrong meaning of the word. additionally, the interface is very bloated nowadays, as there is usually a full page of other junk before the actual search results

@ryomaanime4563

4 ай бұрын

@@pixell3607 The video is pretty explicit about that tho. Thousand Ads, personalized results (I want neutral information from a search engine.) Also it doesn't filter out the various clones of duplicates of sites and can show the same page in half of its results And they sell your whole life to anyone ready to pay a bit to know.

Considering more often than not, the Google searches are inaccurate and often a mess to deal with, such as not respecting filter parameters. Duck Duck Go is a nice alternative, not so strange someone else can rise to the top when Google fucks up this badly.

@estuardo2985

4 ай бұрын

I find it annoying when I put in specific search terms and then get the wokest results but use a different engine and while they have some of the same faults you can at least find data going through the hits.

@MikkelDevs

4 ай бұрын

​@estuardo2985 Yes, i was going to say something similar. The search results in Google are quite left wing biased and anti small businesses.

@nvthane

4 ай бұрын

@@MikkelDevs You realized Google is quite more right winged yet information given are Western government-oriented 💀Unless you're talking about liberal in social and not left wing in economy...

@MikkelDevs

4 ай бұрын

@@nvthane yes liberalism is left wing in usa

@nvthane

4 ай бұрын

@@MikkelDevs oh cmon. 🌈 boo. Did I scare you? Hahaha. Ah. Not killing others because they're themselves. so woke, liberal, left wing, commie and not common sense!!

That was a shock. Duckduckgo, based on Bing API, is twice as popular as the real deal itself...

@rumfordc

4 ай бұрын

that shows just how offputting Bing's presentation is. the search results page has so many injections and is so messy i can barely tell where to look to find the actual link i was searching for.

@mrparts

4 ай бұрын

@@rumfordcbing is a page designed to distract you with ads. It’s really annoying

@Macheako

4 ай бұрын

@@rumfordcI mean…it’s also Microsoft 😂 F*** those guys ❤

@andrei1637

4 ай бұрын

From what I know duckduckgo doesn't sell you data. Unless you use the mobile application in which case they sell it to windows.

@divyanshbhutra5071

3 ай бұрын

@rumfordc I've experienced a serious downgrade in the quality of Google search results. Switched to Bing, and haven't looked back.

I love that someone was like "yeah I am going to name the thing I made duck duck go"

@LogicallyAnswered

4 ай бұрын

For real hahaha

@radicaledwards3449

4 ай бұрын

@@LogicallyAnswered If you 'get' the whole point of this search engine, then you will understand the name.

@bruce-le-smith

4 ай бұрын

right? 2008 with $10m usd in your pocket, working on your passion projects, would've been amazing. it was totally a 'imma do what i want!' moment

@Philfluffer

4 ай бұрын

It symbolizes the randomization of searches. You can search but Bing doesn’t know who or what is requesting the search.

@_remma

4 ай бұрын

😂

good, honestly, sick of google's spyware dragging me down

@LogicallyAnswered

4 ай бұрын

Understandable

@Bhethar

4 ай бұрын

Amen brother!

@andrewreynolds912

4 ай бұрын

Amen to that wooohoo

@bumblebeegamerreal

4 ай бұрын

Duckduckgo has spyware too doesnt it?

@justjax518

4 ай бұрын

@@bumblebeegamerrealno they actually have a block option in there app for spyware from ur other apps etc.

Using DuckDuckGo almost 5 years now. So happy that people understand how amazing this SE is.

something typically missed about ddg is that they actually let you customize the interface to be be however you want it to look googles goal is to just push you whatever the interns came up with to make it look like there is progression

Well Google results are getting worse, perhaps due to the popularity of search engine optimization. I just don't get the results I want with Google so I usually use duck before Google now.

@movement2contact

4 ай бұрын

I tried all others and even forced myself to use DDG for 2-3 years, but nothing beats google, regardless of how much worse it is these years 😒

@Marco-ip5cw

4 ай бұрын

duckduckgo has way better results in general

@commentinglife6175

4 ай бұрын

Add in the fact that you actually get results with DuckDuckGo and not ads. Unless I'm explicitly looking for a product by name or description, I am expecting search results, not ads! I'm going to use what gives me the best chances of finding what I'm looking for. If I have a question and want an answer, I'll take a 10% chance of a result vs. 0% chance as I'm stuck looking at ads - no matter how good your ACTUAL results might be! If they aren't right there, then they don't exist!

@jensenraylight8011

4 ай бұрын

yes, i myself recently switch to DuckDuckGo, because Google became more Annoying. i don't want my search to be used for profiling me, and the last straw is, everytime i Travel, Google just pigeonhole me into a language and search result from that country, even after change the setting, they trust the geolocation and ISP more than my preference it also Screw up everything, my youtube recommendation become tainted as well because of Geolocation and ISP. for google, Geolocation and ISP is the King, even though i already flag it as not interested, they kept flooding me with recommendation from another country, they double down on drowning me My own Preference mean sh*t for them Google just unnecessarily shot themself in their foot. DuckDuck go just straight up give me more neutral result, not pigeonhole me into anything, also it was more barebone, faster, and offer pretty much the same result like google. why would i use google? which give me more slower, bloated , ads ridden result, when i can have a more cleaner search engine No wonder people switched to DuckDuckGo, because Google adopt a Tone Deaf approach.

@KingHalbatorix

4 ай бұрын

It's an issue of censorship and political manipulation of results as well; google has very clear ideological biases against certain organizations and viewpoints, and positive biases towards the groups opposing those.

Google demanding I do a CAPTCHA every time I try to search while connected to a VPN doesn't help.

@markusTegelane

4 ай бұрын

That's definitely one big reason Even without a VPN, sometimes Google makes you fill a captcha if their AI thinks you might not be a human

@gracelandtoo6240

4 ай бұрын

Nah. At this point, it's less about proving WE are human than it is about training models to become more human-like in their abiities.

@raydavison2972

3 ай бұрын

@@markusTegelane Or just keep re-phrasing your search term because of the useless and biased results that Google provides you with.

Google has way too many search engine results that utilize SEO to jump to the top.

@skoda9635

4 ай бұрын

As an SEO, I agree. But, we are watching closely y'all coming via Bing (so DDG too). You have a better conversion rate, time on page, etc., so more quality traffic, but much lower volume than via Google. That's why for the time being, you will be spared by most of the SEOs, since we and our clients are chasing the majority (Google).

'only 4 billion' - this mindset is what's making everything suck

The answer is pretty simple. Search queries are quick (kudos Microsoft) and when you do a search on mobile you don't have to scroll THREE times before a non ad result appears. And since it's bing, might as well take the curated bing result. Easy win in my book. If the result are garbage, take 1 second and switch to google. Its not that hard.

@jensenraylight8011

4 ай бұрын

yes, i used to laugh at DuckDuckGo, But recently google creep me out, and always give me search results and recommendations that was irrelevant, Based on ISP, even though i already flag it as not interested. and they care more about the Geolocation and ISP preference more than My Own Preference, i feel like Google keep testing my boundary i can only tolerate it for so long, therefore i switched to the thing that i laugh at. the irony... DuckDuckGo give me more neutral result, and not skewed by Geolocation and ISP, and if it tell them to don't show result or recommendation from other country, they Obey me and also, why would i use a product that won't respect me and keep poking on my privacy? when there are a better product

@Squaretable22

4 ай бұрын

DDG has a bang feature where you can search on other sites using it. A privacy centred search engine using googles engine is StartPage, so if my result on DDG for say Pasta isnt good, i just do "!sp Pasta" instead

@joshuamitchell2012

4 ай бұрын

You don't even need to do that. Just add "!google " to the beginning of your search in DDG and it'll automatically do a search in google for you. DDG calls them 'Bangs' and it works for more than just google.

Fun fact: Duckduckgo behind the scenes uses a combination of bing search APIs and Yahoo search APIs along with its own web index.

@user-do9le6lc8y

4 ай бұрын

yep it relies on bing and yahoo

@nickbrutanna9973

3 ай бұрын

Well, they used to find things that Google blocked, but they don't any longer. So... not as much of an improvement as is needed. ALL of them use horrible algorithms any longer, and fail to provide even the most vaguely accurate answers, feeding you instead an array of answers locked into one or two popular, common words, rather than a check first for something matching ALL the words. *There is certainly a market for a new search engine that **_actually searches_** for what you **_told it to search for..._* 😕

@Amorousstake4

3 ай бұрын

​@@user-do9le6lc8yYahoo = Bing Search without Copilot

@Amorousstake4

3 ай бұрын

Microsoft is clever indeed

@aintnochange

3 ай бұрын

​@@nickbrutanna9973well, brave search might be what you're looking for. At least it still shows some blocked stuff that duck and big tech doesn't.

I hate the search results from Google and the suggested videos from KZread more and more each day. I'm 43 years old and I was using the internet extensively since I went to a technical college and I can remember how different things were back then. Google and KZread were a real breath of fresh air at first and now they're both becoming less and less usable every day.

its not better than google used to be, but it's better than it is now. For now. It'll inevitably follow the same path of enshittification eventually I'm sure.

@devcrom3

4 ай бұрын

By then we'll have ChickChickGoose.

@belstar1128

4 ай бұрын

yea we just keep changing search engines every 5 to 10 years its the circle of life .

@Iosaiv

4 ай бұрын

@@devcrom3 Create it brother!

@MangaGamify

4 ай бұрын

I call this "Drug L0rd" paradox, where when the biggest Drug L0rd was unalived, another one takes its place. IDK the international term for it. The only good thing was being a search engine company is extremely lucrative, with users or atleast me being only loyal to unfiltered/unmangled results.

@NuchiAsaki

4 ай бұрын

It's on that path for sure. You can't exclude terms from search results and their staff have already admitted to filtering results based on their political ideology. They just aren't as bad as Google or Bing yet.

I love that DDG is getting more recognized. Personally, I use basically every search engine I know of. Every browser on my computer is set to have a different default search engine it's just depends on what I'm working on

@Slav4o911

4 ай бұрын

Sadly it also gets more censored... and I don't talk about the conflict with Russia. That conflict just was their first excuse to censor results... then the censorship become larger.

@motionoftheocean7524

4 ай бұрын

Are you undercover?

@rolandasgrigaitis708

4 ай бұрын

@@Slav4o911 Use yandex instead, you'll be surprised at the search results.

@DowntownsUptown

6 күн бұрын

👍🤣

this coverage kicks ass, thanks Hari. I've always heard of DuckDuckGo but never gained the velocity to escape the gravity of google. but now that google's new motto is going towards, 'oh yeah we're actually evil bro' I think this video might help me do it. i have a coworker who is a big fan of DDG and recommends it, she's always thinking deeply about 'what's the right thing to do'. also it's refreshing to see a tech CEO who isn't being a crazy megalomaniac in the news

@MangaGamify

4 ай бұрын

Sounds like you have a lot of options and had nothing to lose / gain depending on the context; I'm a 🏴‍☠ so needless to say Google is a no go.

@rathersane

3 ай бұрын

Most browsers (even Chrome!) offer the option of setting DDG as the default search engine.

Been using it for years at this point. Privacy tech is great. I hope that the recent push towards AI will get people to demand to be compensated for their data if it's going to be used for these LLMs.

Duckduckgo has recently lived long enough to become the villian. The censorship on the search engine has continiously grow over the past two years

@devcrom3

4 ай бұрын

You dropped your foil hat.

@Frosty-cg8xf

4 ай бұрын

@@devcrom3 I mean it's straight from the horse's mouth. Mr. Weinberg did say he would censor Russian propaganda... he however failed to define what met his criteria for "Russian Propaganda". Fine, Russians bad, whatever. DDG has now further censored search results by removing many torrenting sites, among other examples

@isodoubIet

4 ай бұрын

Yep. Either it's completely free and open or it might as well not exist. There is no middle ground. And anyone who says the search results are as good as or better than google is tripping. So the same crap, but worse service... what's even the point?

@NicksIndieGames

4 ай бұрын

Since they are Bing results, they have to be censored at least as much as Bing does.

@tilsgee

4 ай бұрын

i think the censorship comes from Bing itself. not from DDG

To answer your title (which is 100% definetly never going to be changed at all) Because duckduckgo is king ngl. I use it on pretty much every device

@LogicallyAnswered

4 ай бұрын

Hahaha

0:55 Saying Signal 'Had 5 seconds of fame and then faded into oblivion' is very exaggerated, it has 40 million users (2021) which is not that much off 80 million for DuckDuckGo

@apuapustaja1

4 ай бұрын

The video is shaped like an advert. This guy was probably paid by DDG or one of their shell companies.

@krekolos421

3 ай бұрын

@@apuapustaja1 Are you aware that DDG doesn't have the sources nor need to pay some youtuber just to make them an advertisement

@ronald3836

21 күн бұрын

2021 is a few seconds ago by now.

@boas_

20 күн бұрын

@@ronald3836 Also in January 2022. I can't find any more recent data but I don't think it has declined significantly.

I've been using DDG for years, and the main reason is probably SEO. That is a poison that turned google into an AD. Having to shuffle through 6 pages of absolute garbage every search on google takes a toll on anyone. DDG is becoming worse with the years (as is the internet with the millions of gargabe clickbait void content around), but it's still way and beyond google. The added privacy is a nice bonus to have.

[2:16] Man I really love these custom topic specific count animations, Great attention to details. I truly appreciate your content and all the hard work you put in. Thanks.

I'm already using duck duck Go more than Google nowadays

This video single handedly caused me to download DuckDuckGo. Fantastic video as always.

@LogicallyAnswered

4 ай бұрын

🙏

@flo0778

4 ай бұрын

you cannot download a search engine

@PuroKross

4 ай бұрын

@@flo0778 duckduckgo has their own browser lad.

@busywatch

4 ай бұрын

@@flo0778 Im pretty sure they are talking about the mobile app..

@mahithr

4 ай бұрын

Although what you're saying is correct, Duckduck Go does offer a browser that we can download (both Android and desktop). I think the OP is referring to that.

I stopped using duckduckgo after they started censoring search results

@Ummba13

4 ай бұрын

🤨

@Swahili1

4 ай бұрын

what were you searching?

@rumfordc

4 ай бұрын

yea it is heavily censored now, and since it depends on Bing its only going to get worse.

I wish I had taken photos of those DuckDuckGo billboards in Seattle a decade ago. Those were more historic than I thought they would be.

Oddly enough as I clicked on this video to watch it my 2 friends were talking about browsers and my friend said he's been using DDG recently.

@LogicallyAnswered

4 ай бұрын

What a coincidence

Who uses Brave search, i feel like duckduckgo is just bing with censorship.

@chimagamer4157

4 ай бұрын

and you are right ddg is just a reskin bing

@Denastus

4 ай бұрын

Brave search still uses chromium API

@lpnp9477

4 ай бұрын

Brave search results are awful for anything beyond super basic queries, but I do like their browser

@Blueeeeeee

4 ай бұрын

Brave Search is the best search engine on the market IMO. Best results and very good, rich integrations.

@belstar1128

4 ай бұрын

Brave search is good too i really like the goggles feature

Was sad to hear hardly anyone supported them when they didn't have a sponsor. Goes to show that such a good service people aren't willing to pony up cash if it's free. Good that they found someone willing to fund them now.

As long time DDG user i can tell you that DDG is...annoying. Yeah right. Their problem is that DDG completely ignores your search operators. Like, you search [whatever -something] and DDG will keep feeding you with results containing [something]. No matter that you do their search results is always full of noise and irrelevant results and they dont allow you to discard that noise. This is especially annoying if you search for "less common" results. I use it and will use again, but sometimes you have to switch to Google for more refined results.

@LilRedDog

4 ай бұрын

I use it and will use again, but -sometimes- in rare events you have to switch to Google for more refined results. ftfy

@KatielynMsp

4 ай бұрын

yeah, that's true

@Cathowl

4 ай бұрын

Yeah I've used DuckDuckGo for years and I'm mostly happy with it but boy I'd love if -amazon actually removed Amazon from my results thanks.

@VaracolacidVesci

4 ай бұрын

Learn the code used. Ddg and google doest use the same flags.

@Vednier

4 ай бұрын

@@VaracolacidVesciI looked into their help section about advanced search operators - its same stuff as everywhere: "cats and dogs", cats -dogs, cats +dogs. Nothing new, so i dunno that you talking about. Next, there is post from about year ago with people complaining about minus operator not working and DDG personnel confirmed that.

My main issue with other search engines than Google is for non English searches

Its a better search engine. Respects your privacy and doesn't tell you what to search for.

Hadn't realized this was a phenomenon.. I literally switched over a month ago! Felt like it was the right thing to do. Google searches just weren't doing it any more

the one thing i hate about duckduckgo is using crapple maps when i look for an address.

As a DuckDuckGo user myself, I am very surprised at the stats. I figured it would be damn-near the the bottom of your list lol.

Having been a user of DuckDuckGo for literal years, I've never heard (or don't remember ever hearing) of Signal or BeReal, so this is an interestingly different POV.

I've used DDG for years now. It's provides relevant search results, doesn't filter results of any sort, and respects my right to privacy. It does what it promises and that's what I care about.

@josephjoestar4318

4 ай бұрын

They do filter searches. Duckduckgone

The problem with duck duck go is that they violated their own standards with how they decided to manipulate search results re the current conflict in eastern europe. That makes them no better than google, and so I personally don't think it's worth it to put up with the inferior service.

@braytongoodall2169

4 ай бұрын

It's unfortunate and surprising they compromised on the principle of credible neutrality. Before then I would've felt comfortable voluntarily sharing data for them to sell (directly or indirectly increase revenue through ads). No longer. There's always Quant (France) and Yandex (Russia), but I don't know if either are neutral for foreign users.

@Bobo-ox7fj

4 ай бұрын

Just use a searxng instance like a normal person

@RichWithTech

4 ай бұрын

@@Bobo-ox7fj what's that bro?

@Bobo-ox7fj

4 ай бұрын

@@RichWithTech It's a metasearch engine - compiles results from a variety of search engines instead of doing the crawling on its own. Like DDG, but DDG only steals results from Bing.

@LilRedDog

4 ай бұрын

The fallacy in logic of "they did this one thing, so they are no better than this other thing that does so much more wrong" is astounding.

Recently, anime watchers have been complaining about localizers putting whatever they want to in the scripts instead of what the consumer wants. It resonated with me because I feel google is doing the same, I look for something and I get ads and google's pre-answered questions, I try to make a better search, and its the same... Sometimes I try to add "wikipedia" (so at least it finds me that topic there) but still need like 3 scrolls to *finally* get to the link.

DDC is my main search engine for last year and it was a gamechanger. Easy, reliable, no AD trash in results.

Living in California for years I did not see a single DuckDuckGo billboard. Then I visited Minnesota and some other states nearby and I saw multiple within the span of a week.

Duck duck go was once the underdog. Till they sold all our data, with a selling point not to do that. Its just the new liar on the block

And DDG is with Microsoft, ah irony 🤣

I downloaded it but then realised that they dont have extensions or neither can you add them, so just gonna stick to edge until they do

People must be aware that while duck duck go is quite fresh it still sensors information. You can look it up

Only issue I found is that DuckDuckGo lets data through to Microsoft since they made a deal with them.

@winio437

4 ай бұрын

This is why ddg is not trustworthy.

"I have never seen anybody use DuckDuckGo". Well, that is the point, isn't it?

Why do I feel like I have seen this title and thumbnail before as well... Is this a re-upload?

@LogicallyAnswered

4 ай бұрын

Nah man, have never covered duckduckgo in the past

I just want search engine that doesn't have a foot on the scale when it comes to social issues in which google is the worst. Bonus if they took out all the nanny filters as well.

@strigoiu13

4 ай бұрын

"alternative" views and "facts" are just plain blatant lies

People are tired of privacy intrusion and everyone is getting aware of how they are been spied for selfish gains

It might help to know that you are able to switch your default search engine to DDG on Chrome settings. But I'm sure that people who want that won't use Chrome.

So everyone means the usa? DuckDuckGo only has 0.51% worldwide market share even in north america is only 1.51% or is the same argument with everyone is switching to firefox (3.36%) and linux going from 3.22% to 3.88% 🤣

@Bob13454

4 ай бұрын

To be fair this video is in English and the USA is the largest English speaking country.

I do feel as though duckduckgo's results have been getting worse over time, but I still don't notice any sort of bias in my results

@BlazingMagpie

4 ай бұрын

DuckDuckGo seems to be better, but only because it's hard to be worse then Google

Hari, what's going on with Silo? I got my invitation email and tried to see what it's all about but turns out it only works on iPhone/iPad? I don't like iOS so I probably have every other type of device from Chromebooks and Android phones, to Windows and Linux machines, to Macbooks, both Pro and Air, to even an iMac, except the one you decided to release it on! Is there an ETA for other platforms, or even for a web-based version?

@LogicallyAnswered

2 ай бұрын

Ah sorry to hear that man. For the time being, Silo is only available on iOS. We are working on building Android and Web, but that likely won't be out till the end of the year at the earliest.

@blacknovaentertainment

2 ай бұрын

@@LogicallyAnswered thanks for letting me know. I think you're going to find the Android Web Store challenging as there's already an all called Silo and it's something to do with money... not sure how to pull off being the second app with the same name but I hope you can think of a way. Hopefully, the Web version doesn't give you any trouble.

I already switched to DuckDuckGo some time ago simply because therea are no new compact phablets (let's say sub 5'' display) on the market, so I have to keep my old Samsung A320FL alive until trend reverse again… That said, it has only 16 GB inside, and despite I cleared a lot when going through rooting and installing custom ROM, I'm still constrained by the size of the apps as Android lost ability to work with SD cards as app storage - and Google app had about 1,5 GB, while DuckDuckGo needs just 0,1 GB…

I would love to see a video on Brave Browser and its history

I use Brave especially when shop online

You set your default search engine once and thats it. However even though i have used it for search for years, i am still tracked by my devices anyway

Thanks for this vid. I've been using DDG for well over a decade now and love it. I'm glad to have heard the story behind it, too! One nitpick for the vid: You said "less ads" a couple times. I believe you meant "fewer ads". ;) // Thank you, Gabriel Weinberg!

@davidgeorge237

3 ай бұрын

Yes. DuckDuckGo. How to get ?

You mention the (relatively) small amount of money they make (compared to Google), and calculate that more people using it for search would equate to making more money. What you didn't explain is how they make any money at all, without ads or selling user data? Edit: Never mind, they do have ads, just based on what the specific search is for, and not personalized to the individual user. That seems reasonable.

Switch for 8 years. DuckDuckGo never improved. Always come back to Google if I want to do serious search. However, Google became about as crap as DDG is. Its search had been dogsht. Unsurprise to see other switch. Guess it is not privacy, just quality.

No way my mans just hit us with the Unix epoch as the DDG founders bday lol

@NONO-hz4vo

4 ай бұрын

When I was first getting into IT in the 90's I remember seeing a bunch of files all with Dec 31, 1969 on them. A veteran explained to me the Unix epoch and I learned how time zones altered the stamps with GMT.

@shade221

4 ай бұрын

1979, not 1970

Moved from Ixquick to Duck Duck myself.... when they moved from being a meta search engine and became startpage.

Started using it two days ago, impressed by the difference

@chimagamer4157

4 ай бұрын

better use brave (search) as an actual alternative, ddg is just a bing reskin and stinks just as much of all the corporate nonsense as all the other calfornia tech.

Sorry to be the party pooper, but it's definitely not that simple. Bing's API costs about $20 per 1000 requests. If DuckDuckGo has 1B visits per month (the author even claims 2.3B), and let's assume that each visit equals 1 search request (it's more, but let's stick to it for simplification), it means that it costs them at least *20 million dollars per month* only to use the API, not to mention the server infrastructure costs, which would also be huge with that kind of traffic. You wouldn't believe that some unknown rich dude lights up on fire literally *hundreds of millions of dollars* each year out of pure goodness of his heart, right? :) There has to be a way to make money from it. Always remember: if the product is free - you are the product.

@LarryDickman1

3 ай бұрын

Always remember: if the product is free - you are the product. Bingo

I havn't been using Google for over a decade. I don't remember when I switched to duckduckgo, but it was at least a 10 years ago

DuckDuckGo is my Internet favorite search engine!... Congratulations, DuckDuckGo! You are the best!

If your angry at Google force feeding you ads on YT, now you know a way to fight back 😂 Switch to the duck!

@andrewreynolds912

4 ай бұрын

Duck is doing what they say their basically doing I guess

@ahoyforsenchou7288

4 ай бұрын

Yes fight Google by switching to Microsoft. Your data is totally way safer there. "My shitty web host is way better than your shitty web host!"

@andrewreynolds912

4 ай бұрын

@@ahoyforsenchou7288 yes true

@Bhethar

4 ай бұрын

@@ahoyforsenchou7288agreed that duck is not perfect, but your average Joe is unlikely to switch to more obscure privacy preserving search engines. However, anything that makes life difficult for Google is good. They are the most dangerous and bigger enemy of privacy so far. Hopefully duck duck will be one of many future players that will enter the mainstream and detract from Google colossal size

DuckDuckGo is that popular? Damn. I’m shocked

@andrewreynolds912

4 ай бұрын

Yea for like the last month or two I've seeing it on ads on TV and cox TV etc

Can someone tell me which Is safer when i use firefox focus on ios; using the Google option or duck duck go in firefox settings. Please and thank you!

@ImARealHumanPerson

14 күн бұрын

They are both safe. For privacy, you are better off using pretty much anything other than Google.

Duckduck vs opra gx which is better?

Hate the clickbait title, knowing your works I know it would be more than that. I am trying duckduckgo starting now, will see.

i love duckduckgo, never thought it was so big but dont think it doesnt track, every search does have duckduckgo tracker attached.

Dumped ddg after their horrendous statements, brave is where it's at until they f up too.

@_MaZTeR_

4 ай бұрын

They've too had numerous controversies in the past, latest one I recall was turning on some VPN without your permission

@cinifiend

4 ай бұрын

I just use Microsoft for now, bing and edge. Microsoft is evil, Microsoft was evil before Google even existed, we all know that they've been evil for decades, and they probably aren't going to change or get any more evil at least, so it is what it is.

@erickheredia8910

4 ай бұрын

I use brave search. What happened?

I've been using it for quite a while. I like not having to scroll through a page of adds to find something that may relevant!

this video quacked me up

@LogicallyAnswered

4 ай бұрын

Hahaha

I just use bing over google

I work in the tech industry and have known that Google search is as biased as its AI project, had no choice but dump it for duckduckgo 6 years ago,it was a breath of fresh air doing so.

I literally had a moment of withdrawal after switching to Duck Duck go. Goes to show how much I had internalised the google interface

On the censorship side DuckDuckGo is not much better than google sadly

Been using it for centuries

Already using their browser and loving its simplicity and obviously privacy.

DDG answers the questions you make unlike Google. There is a big difference.

I'm still sceptical about it after using it since decade ago. 60% of me still think that it belongs to FBI and NSA

@LogicallyAnswered

4 ай бұрын

Hahaha

@ahoyforsenchou7288

4 ай бұрын

@@LogicallyAnswered Intelligent response. How much did you get paid for this video anyways?

@Fleecing1

4 ай бұрын

atleast it's better than google

@LoA-Eye

4 ай бұрын

@@ahoyforsenchou7288 Not enough to reply to you apparently. And btw, I'm the unfunny guy!

@christophermcallister3033

4 ай бұрын

Do you run SearX or some other personally hosted search engine? Because otherwise it doesn't matter if DDG is an FBI op, the feds and more can get your data with a simple request to any incorporated SE

As long as duckduckgo uses Bing, there is no way I will ever use them

@rickyspanish4792

4 ай бұрын

Yeah I'm waiting for the first engine that actually does it own indexing instead of using Google or Bing. Am willing to pay for it, too.

i have used duckgo and brave for years now, around when the ad opocalypse on youtube happend, alt tech was getting some love shortly after

The other interesting phenomenon are ecological search engines that plant a tree or etc for every hundred searches you make, or donate a good percentage of profits towards resolving an environmental problem

Didm't DDG partially sell-out with data privacy or something?

@jc3drums916

4 ай бұрын

Since DDG uses Bing, they are not allowed to block tracking scripts from Microsoft-owned sites.

I've used it for years!

i just found your channel. i really appreciate your work and putting effort in linking all the resources

Anybody with any sense is ditching duck duck go for the brave browser.

@winio437

4 ай бұрын

What do you think about StartPage?

lol it's literally the same thing. DDG is arguably he biggest honeypot in the last decade.

@MichaelDeHaven

4 ай бұрын

DDG is far from ideal but for the average normal person it does beat Google. Not a high standard but that's what it is.

But you have to get it through the Google Play store?

I tried it a year ago, because Google pisses me off with many of their changes, but the long tail of results from Microsoft is no comparison to Google search. I'm usually pretty far out there with how I shake the tree, and I finally decided I needed the long tail more than the masking.