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1 posted on 01/10/2021 1:03:14 PM PST by Hootowl99
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Cool.
Get a job.


2 posted on 01/10/2021 1:05:25 PM PST by humblegunner (Balls To Picasso.)
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Not touching Yandex stuff. Yandex is the Kremlin’s Facebook.


3 posted on 01/10/2021 1:05:31 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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I could say this is a Lowsy vanity about the Brouser, but I’ll refrain.


4 posted on 01/10/2021 1:05:34 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom ("Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out" -- David Horowitz)
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I use duckduckgo search engine with Brave browser.


5 posted on 01/10/2021 1:06:25 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
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I've used DuckDuckGo for years. It gets the job done nicely.
6 posted on 01/10/2021 1:10:05 PM PST by bella1 (Italian Lives Matter--who else is going to make the sauce?)
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As a software evaluator, you should know the Apple overlords make importing transferring or sharing of anything is dam near impossible on their software between other apps. Hell I have 2 Apple accounts with purchases from each account. Can I mearge them? Hell no! Apple sucks! I use DDT on my ipad. Works find for what I need. Privacy.


7 posted on 01/10/2021 1:10:06 PM PST by The MAGA-Deplorian (It is the Trump way! It is the only way!)
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Duck Duck go messes with URLs Also. Like Google they limit the ability to reach certain sites. I know from experience. It has happened enough times that I ended up using Firefox or others.


8 posted on 01/10/2021 1:10:28 PM PST by OneVike (Just another Christian waiting to go home)
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How does one know whether DDG is just Google with a different name and some kind of wrapper that makes the data tracking less obvious. Just Google 2.0, now with StealthTrack.


9 posted on 01/10/2021 1:10:58 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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I use this search engine myself and am quite happy with it.

The first test I performed was a search for the following and had drastic differences between the two (google and duckduckgo)

Search criterea (United States Investigative Services+Blake Percival)


10 posted on 01/10/2021 1:11:13 PM PST by patriot torch
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Sure, all is well and good until it doesn’t give you current news and tends to flip over to google.


11 posted on 01/10/2021 1:13:29 PM PST by bgill (.)
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A useful thing I neglected to mention is that the Duck browser forces a webpage to use https encryption if available even it is not the default settling of the page.
12 posted on 01/10/2021 1:14:04 PM PST by Hootowl99
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I’ve been using DDG for at least a year. I find it meets nearly all my needs just as good as Google, save one. When I need images for a computer graphics project, Google has a much better selection. That’s it. Otherwise, I use DDG. My cell phone is very Google based and I can’t seem to put DDG on it. I am sort of forced to use Chrome on it, if I want the internet. I only use the internet on my phone when out shopping and I want to check prices at other stores, or find if a certain store is in the area I happen to be at. So at least it’s minimal.


15 posted on 01/10/2021 1:20:39 PM PST by EinNYC
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I have used it for years. No problems. Sometimes, I will use google to get a map. That is about it. Don’t feed the beast. Counting down until freepers tell you that DDG sux...


19 posted on 01/10/2021 1:24:36 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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Gees, man...you missed its most important feature: Unlike Google, it doesn’t track you or sell your information.


20 posted on 01/10/2021 1:24:56 PM PST by econjack
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Dear Freepers, this thread is about the DuckDuckGo Android "privacy browser" app, not the DuckDuckGo search engine. The search engine can be used by anyone with internet access, while the browser app requires Android 5.0+.

Google Play listing:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.duckduckgo.mobile.android&hl=en_US

23 posted on 01/10/2021 1:31:33 PM PST by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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Just tried out brave browser, meh.

Not real impressed with it. No way to adjust screen type size it seems, no way to add “top sites” permanently it seems. And can’t find out how to include the menu bar for pages like in Firefox, I fund it important to have. Also no way of opening up to a select site it seems

Would like waterfox for android but not sure they make such an animal?

Any good suggestions for alternative to lousy Mozilla firefox that isntbgoogle connected or Chinese, Russian, ?


24 posted on 01/10/2021 1:33:05 PM PST by Bob434
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They are beginning their decent in to liberal land. There search results are getting worse and worse.


31 posted on 01/10/2021 1:56:03 PM PST by Organic Panic (Flinging poo is not a valid argument)
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There are instruction on how to use DDG from within Safari, but I can’t change my search engine settings to DDG in Safari like the instructions say. How the heck are you seeing the tracking cookies blocked?


36 posted on 01/10/2021 2:30:17 PM PST by diatomite (That grifter crook Biden or Kamella isn't my president and never will be!! Resist!!.)
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DuckDuckGo is nothing but a front to google search.


38 posted on 01/10/2021 2:33:11 PM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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I mainly use it because it brings up a bunch of results you won’t see on Chrome, it dawns on you that search results on Google are highly censored. For example, if you search on terms that are anti-tech, anti-Facebook, Google, etc., you will get a handful of results, on DDG you will get a lot more.


40 posted on 01/10/2021 2:45:01 PM PST by kaehurowing
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