[Cialug] DuckDuckGo is now emulating Google!!

[Adam Shannon]

I use Brave search. They've built their own index / crawler. 

https://search.brave.com/


------- Original Message -------
On Friday, October 7th, 2022 at 1:16 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:


> 
> 
> DDG is now collecting data on users - they are now replacing search result
> links with links BACK TO DDG so they can track you!!
> 
> So, .. if you want to search without any track by blocking DDG javascript,
> searches non longer work. in addition, they are now hijaacking a local
> search and forcing it INTO THE SEARCH BAR!!! Which makes it impossible to
> search for terms WITHIN the search results page.
> 
> Don't suppose anyone has another option?
> 
> TIA!
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