Yeah, don’t we all know Google trying to copy Apple for years? And now they whine to EU about Apple being too good and should share their features with others.
It does shit me that Google’s search engine is the best out there. I’ve gone through periods where I stop using their search engine but always come crawling back out of frustration.
I try to use as few of Google’s products as possible.
Samsung S22u here, using android 13. I didn’t find it difficult to make either DDG or Brave my default browser or search engine. I really like DDG’s app tracker blocker. They also have an email alias that strips the trackers out of email messages. How many times have you clicked on a website to check out a sale or something, and get an immediate email reply “you see something you like?”
I’d use DuckDuckGo because I love the thought behind it but my search results are always significantly worse than google
idk, the pixel 7 pro is so awful, it’s probably helping competition more
personally after having to rma this piece of shit twice, I’m not just going to be switching to Samsung, I’m going to be leaving Google Fi entirely and permanently
Would absolutely buy DDG Hardware… Just saying.
I mean… DuckDuckGo is not a great marketable name if you ask me…
It sounds too… silly? stupid? much like a joke? All of the above???
Yes google is much better
It is……
And “Yahoo”
Make me a phone that runs GrapheneOS and I’ll consider buying it. Without any software modifications made by you.
not the point. The point is Google carrie’s out several anti-trust practices. A cornerstone to these is their ability to own a huge part of the phone market.
Side note, no ones using anything but android or ios at this point. except for select use cases/government interference, we are not going to see any major changes.
That is exactly my point: As long as the competition is constantly producing untrustworthy, inferior products, despite them being able to build superior ones, I don’t give a fuck about Google doing anti-trust practices as there’s nothing else to buy, anyway. It would be different matter, is they were actually preventing others from building and selling decent phones, but they’re not.
Sidenote: GrapheneOS is Android, but without all the untrustworthy shit and with good privacy controls. Thanks for not even searching the name.
Idk anyone who isn’t MAGA that uses DuckDuckGo.
what has politics got to do with the price of cheese?
Canadian, non-Trumper who uses DDG here.
Idk anyone who has ever made that point but you.
I use duckduckgo.
What the hell kind of generalization is that?
This Sounds like Netscape in the 90s
Better off asking shit brands and carriers from loading bloatware to the phones that can’t be uninstalled. Only reason I switched to Nexus then Pixels were they came without bloatware.
That is how they get the MSRP down though, and I imagine that that matters more to more budget conscious consumers. Google’s competitors lose out in the present, and we may all lose out in the long term if they go out of business, but this is a situation in which it is difficult to not make consumers worse off in, either in the long or the short term
Stock android for the win
That might be true, but DuckDuckGo’s search algorithm leaves a lot to be desired. I would rather let the government see me naked than suffer through two more weeks of impossibly bad search results.
I actually can’t stand Google results anymore. Duck duck go is significantly better at getting what I am actually searching for
Agreed. It’s getting harder to find non officially sanctioned information about any company or product these days. Google search is no longer an index of the Internet but instead a whitewashed snapshot of what they want you to see. Way back machine is becoming more valuable.
It really depends what you’re looking for.
Google is basically ads for semi related things.
DDG is good for things not related to shopping.
Bing is superior for porn.
So that’s why I don’t mind using bing 🤯 mystery solved :D
Yea I’m about ready to abandon DDG. I hate to go back to Google, but I need to be able to find shit on the internet.
Just use bangs?
DDG is so bad I actually started paying for Kagi and Brave would be my second choice if I had to choose.
Could you give an example of when Kagi did the job where Google failed?
I didn’t start using Kagi because Google is worse in terms of search results. I like the features they have. Being able to quickly blacklist sites and the lack of ads is really nice. I also think the site itself feels faster.
Sometimes it’s user error. What is impossible to find on one web browser and not another?
Not browser. Search engine. The order and relevancy of results matters. You don’t want to click through 3 pages of results to find something relevant
Yeah, I’ve tried it more than once and the results are terrible.
Google search very recently nosedived in quality, after the first 2-3 real results it’s all scam websites.
Now if I want to find something out I google it and add “Reddit” at the end of the search
Yeh that or some technical site but reddit usually covers it fine.
It does leave a lot to be desired, but reconsider abandoning it. At least keep using it and their browsers until they’re able to make improvements and use google when features make it necessary.
What they stand for is important and eventually they will get to where google has had decades to get.
Usability, privacy, and lack of ads and malware are too important to the future to abandon a product just because it’s not yet been perfected.
Hell, Apple and DDG should team up, seems like a match made in heaven. Apple could do a lot for them, and they could help Apple in many ways as well.
Duck duck go also tends to be a cesspool tbf
Really? No privacy, so you can find your fetish faster?! 😅
Do we say “DDG it” or “Google it”. Catchier phrase wins the hearts. Maybe “Duck it”, not sure that works either.
That’s not really relevant here, but it’s not necessarily because it was catchier. Google has been around longer.
not the point
DDLG it?
“Search” is a word that comes to mind…
Try Ecosia.org instead
Witness in anti-trust case against google “their agreements thwart competition”
People who don’t understand wtf monopolist laws are about “ddg search sucks!”
