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What's a current or growing trend only you seem to have concerns about? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've definitely turned into the paranoid nutcase within my friend group in recent years, I hate that everything is "smart" nowadays requiring an app/internet connection & account, just to do basic things that didn't require any of that before.

What's some things currently making you ramble like an old man?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Use DuckDuckGo. I left google years ago as results became ridiculous

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I do (it's my default search engine) but I more often than not have to go back to Google anyway cause DDG promotes those bot-written blogs to the top even more than Google does. Ironically Bing does better than both because at least it's GPT-powered.

That said, none of these search engines can provide me the results I'm looking for most of the time. I need something different.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

A duckduckgo search is a Bing search

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

DuckDuckGo might be more private, but it won't solve the SEO problem. I know they have some of their own trackers, but in practice duckduckgo is basically a front-end for Bing.