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[–] 38 points 3 months ago (16 children)

Clarification for all that are as confused by the headline as I have been:

It actually is about the DuckDuckGo browser which apparently is a thing as I've learned now...

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    So far so good!

    I use the DDG on my mobile, Android, for my daily driver browser. It just works. I think they have some form of "AI" but it's easily avoidable.

    Search is comparable to G@@&)3 but isn't (as far as i know) tracking you.

    I can't say much because I do not search for many things; however, I do get results and they are helpful and not advertisements.

    Hope this tracks and is helpful!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I don't quite get the point on platforms on which less limited options (like FF + uBlock + any search engine you want set as standard) are available. Main selling point is convenience, I guess?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Diversity is fine because sometimes, a good thing changes quite suddenly for the worse. Firefox got a bit of heat when they implemented AI in the browser, even if it's off by default, a lot of people decided that was too much of a bad sign and jumped to other browsers. Having options to satisfy your trust is good.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    I think the main selling point is awareness, at this point. Offer up the product to the public to show them what they've consented to with using Chrome / Edge / Firefox.

    They trout the privacy features, as they should - but a more advanced user can get better results with Firefox and an array of extensions.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    yeah, it's on f-droid afaik. i believe it's a simple webview wrapper and not really a full browser.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    That's interesting. Looks like a nice one to recommend to non tech savvy people who wouldn't b able to install ublock on their own

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    installing firefox from google.play (or fennec from f-droid or whatever fenix build) and adding ublock origin from addons menu should be pretty straightforward i believe

    honestly not sure if the ddg browser can be recommended, especially because webview is ancient and not updated on quite a few android phones

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    How long before we get the feature in LibreWolf?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Librewolf has uBlock builtin already, which is probably superior to a solution based on system-wrapper-browsing (in the most cases built on restricted chrome engines) like the DuckDuckGo browser does.

    It's actually the main reason I am using LibreWolf on my company laptop, as installation of external browser plugins is disabled there...

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  • [–] 21 points 3 months ago

    I wonder if Google would try to "punish" DuDuckGo for such ragebaiting actions.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    That's cool and all, but being able to block YouTube ads in my browser has been table stakes from the beginning, so I'm already set

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