Try SearXNG. SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from more than 70 search services. Users are neither tracked nor profiled. Additionally, SearXNG can be used over Tor for online anonymity.
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It’s neither. Why do you expect they calculating an answer to have any impact at privacy?
I mean DDG search is safe, but my search results and search queries are going through AI, who knows they are collecting it
DDG already sends your search query to third parties. What they don’t send is your identity.
(Or, at least they say they don’t, whether you trust them is your option. Any 3rd party can betray your trust.)
Anyway, that image implies an in-house implementation.
They claim not to save your chats and not to use them for improving the AI model. Using GPT-3.5 Turbo through DuckDuckGo is definitely better than using your phone number to sign up for an OpenAI account, so yes, I think it makes sense to use this. But ideally, you could just run an AI model offline on your own hardware, I recently saw a Lemmy comment that explains this very well: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/10348570
You can also use @[email protected]’s AI Horde as explained here: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/9295041
Why.
To hell with anything using this AI garbage. Apparently I’m going to have to completely stop using computers because all these idiot companies are using this trash technology that just steals from other sites and presents it as its own. Time to move on from DDG.
Is it good
no.
Oh no :( DDG also becoming bad. Can you suggest me any other search engine (Not Self Hosted one).
DDG is still the best non self host search engine imao. But Startpage and Swisscows are also great options and don’t have the AI stuff and some neat features like private preview (both) or music search (swisscows). Of those two options startpage is superior in privacy
I’m currently stuck using DuckDuckGo myself, just with the AI fluff disabled in settings. I’ve tried various other search engines but they’re either also buying in the LLM hype, or are just Not There Yet™ (https://stract.com, for example), or both.
No, VLC is its own thing however it uses libavcodec from the FFmpeg project for a large number of the codecs included in VLC. But VLC is far from being just an FFmpeg GUI.
Yes.
If it’s as private as they claim it shouldn’t be an issue.
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Some day surely Windows and Mac will get something similar to SearXNG, then you won’t have to worry about this stuff
I am a Linux user.
Then I’d suggest SearXNG. I use public instances because no one has made a way for me to natively host it myself, but I recommend it regardless
What prevents you? Lots of people run their own instance.
Unfortunately it’s broken all the time because it gets IP-banned by Google. Perhaps they could implement something like the Invidious smart-ipv6-rotator to prevent this.
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