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DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being ‘force-fed’ Google’s AI Search (techcrunch.com)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 40 points 4 months ago (6 children)

I've defaulted to ddg for like 2 years now. Solid. Good enough. Really what happened is that SEO optomization websites even before the AI craze made Google search so awful that ddg became just as good if not better for me than google

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Same here and I recently purchased a degoogled Fairphone 6.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago*

    i would love a degoogled phone, but i also lose my wallet fucking everywhere around the house (I swear, it goes in one spot but then it's time for a clown drum circle and i can't find my wallet for a week because i cleaned the damn house) so like i have gotten used to some creature comforts recently. you know how it goes.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    I let the default fall to DDG on some of my machines. I find they're a better experience for 80% of searches. The rest are not handled well by any modern search engines and only Google in verbatim mode (and surprisingly Kagi) come close to delivering good results for those. I hope DDG improves and the team there sees the market forces that are essentially driving customers towards them. We don't want AI shit, just good, non-evil, search.

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