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@floppy.org.uk

I've not used DuckDuckGo for a while, but did just now, and the first link was an ad. No notice that it's an ad, no separation from main results, nothing. I am extremely disappointed in DDG. Just goes to show, everything goes the same way in the end.

5/10/26, 7:09 am1 repost1 like

Jon Rowe

@jonrowe.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy

@Floppy whats your go to? The ability to turn ai off without signing in has kept me on it rather than searching out alts

James Jefferies

@jamesjefferies.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy

@JonRowe @Floppy I was paying for Kagi until I found out about them funding Russian stuff - apart from that, it was good!

DamonHD

@damonhd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

@Floppy I have DDG as my primary SE and I don't think I see any ads. I do have NoScript, PrivacyBadger and Firefox's anti-tracking stuff enabled, and they may be nuking any such ads

Karen Melchior

@karmel80.bsky.social

I have DuckDuckGo as my browser, but I use Ecosia as my search engine. Which search engine did you use?

James Smith 💾

@floppy.org.uk

@karmel80.bsky.social I'm trying https://good-search.org/ at the moment, though it's pretty janky and I'm running out of patience to wait for fixes. I wouldn't recommend it right now.