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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Been using DuckDuckGo for a month or two. It's mostly good enough for me.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've been using it for years and have never looked back.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You should. It uses Bing for its searches. So you are censored to oblivion.

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

I might be mistaken, but IIRC Bing is only one of the data sources DDG uses.

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

Gonna need to see a legit source on that that doesn’t read like right-wing nutjobbery or Russian botnik drivel.

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

What's being censored? You have control over safesearch, and searching phrases verbatim returns all sites where that phrase exists.

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

Safesearch (NSFW) Censorship (Political, Government Posts, etc.)

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

Honestly a good chunk of time its a better experience than google was