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Reddit blocking all major search engines, except Google (readwrite.com)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You underestimate the amount of average joes that use stuff like DuckDuckGo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Seconding this. I work in IT, and the number of tech-illiterate people using DuckDuckGo as their default search engine is astounding. It’s got to be about 10% of our users (none of whom are in tech roles).