DuckDuckGo for Mac is now open source(github.com) |
DuckDuckGo for Mac is now open source(github.com) |
Ddg is a web search engine. So <search engine> for Mac seems like a type error.
The linked page tells you that they are hiring, and how to install the project, but /not what it is/.
It makes sense for anything that wants to compete with Google to also offer a desktop and mobile a browser.
You'll never guess the one trick I used to find that. They don't want you to know.
Ddg is the search engine. Ddg for mac/Windows is the browser.
DDG has really dropped off in quality over the last couple of years. I'm about ready to try that paid search engine that keeps being mentioned here on HN.
Realistically I think it has more to do with the terms your searching for, and not necessarily if one search engine is worse hit by spam, AI or otherwise.
DDG and Google are both open when I'm looking for stock images for flash cards.
I switched to a different search engine (brave) to get away from it, the result quality seems about the same for english, but not as good for other languages- it's not amazing but it'll do
Over the last 12 months or so I was getting that problem with Google, but they seem to have realised that a lot of people were saying that and changed. Whatever Google did wrong for my searches a year ago — and perhaps even that was "not keeping ahead in the race against hostile SEO" — it's entirely possible DDG is doing wrong for your searches right now.
TIL blacklist and whitelist are racist. Even though if you look at the etymology they're not. Meh.
https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/get-duckduckgo/...
https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-for-mac-open-beta/
https://duckduckgo.com/app (this one detects your device so only works if you're on a Mac)
I ran into this with Zoom. If you follow a Zoom conference link, it automatically starts downloading the Zoom client. I wrote an app that helps folks find Zoom meetings.
I was forced to add code that intercepts callouts to Safari, that access Zoom conferences, and show an alert, instead, asking the user to download the app.
May I ask when you switched away from Brave Search? We've been doing work to reduce the amount of captchas a few months ago and we stopped getting feedback about this issue at that point. If it's still happening, it's something we will look into again.
Also, are you a user of ProtonVPN by any chance?
Thanks for your help,
You are presumably using the "Clear on Exit" feature, located within settings at brave://settings/clearBrowserData. When you select the "On Exit" tab of that view, which options do you have selected? Do you find that none of the data types are cleared when you close the browser (via › Exit), or only some of them are cleared?
I'm also curious about the state of two options within brave://settings/system, namely "Close window when closing last tab," and "Warn me before closing window with multiple tabs". Are both of these enabled?
Thank you in advance