I have always liked and used Duck duck go more than google but now i am considering if i should switch because of the shit they pulled with their app and yesterday when i clicked a link it took me directly to their newsletter subsciption page not even like a popup a proper page without any way except manually backing out . So is there a better alternative or is DDG still the best ? Would appreciate if the search ingine came with firefox and i don’t have to jump through hoops to use it. I moved the post from ask lemmy to here .And also i deleted the post from ask lemmy because i thought it wasn’t the appropriate sub (i know should’ve thought of that before posting )

  • Jahuffine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    236·
    11 months ago

    For a while I was self hosting whoogle but it’s been kind of problematic and gets rate limited very quickly. I have been looking at switching to searxng. For both of these you can find some hosted for the public but their security may not be as robust as a company like duck duck go would be. It’s a shame too that duckduckgo does actually collect data and send it to Microsoft as part of their agreement in order to use bing as their backend.

    • Engywuck@lemm.eeEnglish
      17·
      11 months ago

      The data collection of DDG only regarded their browser, not the search engine.

    • Scott@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      Running whoogle aswell and never been rate limited, but I did need to setup a horizontal pod autoscalaer on my deployment because it kept getting into a invalid state. Now kubernetes will just shoot the pod in the head and spin up another. Lol

  • voluble@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    11 months ago

    All I want is a search engine that 1. doesn’t make moral judgements on the results relevant to a search, 2. filters out ai and ad farm results by default, and 3. can be toggled to effectively search web 1.0-style forums.

  • pl_woah@lemmy.mlEnglish
    147·
    11 months ago

    DDG is still the best.

    Stop asking this same question repeatedly.

  • Mario_Dies.wav@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    6·
    11 months ago

    I like Mojeek. It even has an option to search without using locational data, which is something that’s important to me.

    I’m pretty sure I was able to just go to mojeek.com, right click the address bar, and add it to Firefox. I didn’t need an add-on or anything like that.

  • FrostyTrichs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    72·
    11 months ago

    Disclaimer - Spend your money how you want. Use what works for your needs and moral standing. This post is a data point for consideration, not an endorsement.

    I use Kagi with the unlimited search paid version. Whether it’s my own needs, friends, family, etc, I always seem to be the one doing the searching for everyone I interact with. After years of Google feeding more and more sponsored links into the results I switched to DDG, and after about 6 months of finding their results lackluster I tried Kagi.

    For me, it works. I don’t know that I’ll use it forever or anything but at the moment it does a better job of getting me reliable results within the first few sites and I can move on with my day. I just need quick, accurate search results. So far Kagi has been that.

    I did the free trial thing a couple times to see how it worked before paying and I’d suggest that to anyone thinking about switching. Give it a week or two on trial accounts and if it sucks then it probably isn’t for you.

      • Lunch@lemmy.worldEnglish
        32·
        11 months ago

        I believe this is old news now? Heard someone else say that they don’t do it any longer. Might have to look into this for some updated clearance myself too.

  • Euphoma@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    You can just right click on the url bar to add search engines to firefox, I did that for the nixos package repository and youtube.

    As for duck duck go, you can try searxng instances though you are putting your trust in some random admins in that case.