DDG has a noAI portal that filters out AI images and doesn't bother you with summations and things. it's available at noai.duckduckgo.com and you can add it as a separate search engine to Firefox thusly.

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[–] 2 points 9 months ago* (6 children)

I don't trust DuckDuckGo. I think they're... Too clean, too friendly, too invested in the "teehee we are a cool brand" image. They're also offering things that don't make sense for a for profit organization (you can simply disable the ads? For free? And still use their infrastructure?).

I'd bet ten years from now we figure out they are indeed collecting user data, valuable user data because it comes from lowering the guards of users that otherwise block data collection attempts. For a government, for other companies, or both.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Listed: not a single legitimate reason to distrust them.

    What do you think of their audits?

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Apple also promised they were squeaky clean with your data. Snowden came along and shattered this illusion.

    Even "independent" audits are not universally trust worthy.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Yes, but then at that point of distrust, we'd just be better living a caveman life without internet. Gotta draw the line somewhere!

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