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Same here.
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Finally, I see another Mojeek user!
Is there a lawsuit?
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I feel like dgg is catching up solely because of enshittification of google
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Well I won’t tell you that!
None. I already found all the good websites.
I’m guessing you remembered them by their ip addresses too huh. Fuck DNS
I use Ecosia, because plant trees.
It’s good enough and private enough (when the do not track is enabled).
It uses Bing for it’s results. Tho it has a heavy incline toward articles instead of forums when searching for an issue. Unless specified in the search.
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It shares your IP address with Bing, and it does not use any proxy to get the result from Bing.
Any sources please?
I have this https://ecosia.helpscoutdocs.com/article/377-ip-addresses
When communicating your searches to Bing to provide you with results, we never communicate your IP address together with your search queries.
And this : https://www.ecosia.org/privacy
For example, when searching for “tree” on Ecosia we forward the following information to our partner, Bing: IP address (to a separate fraud detection server, so your search term and IP address are never sent to the same server), meta-data on your device that is necessary for the result like screen size, search term, and some settings like your country and language setting.
If you choose to enable “personalised search”, Ecosia sets a Bing-specific “customer ID” parameter to improve the quality of your search results. You can also choose to enable this feature by modifying your user settings.
The search request and IP are sent to separate servers and with different goals.
Mot likely the IP is sent to Bing to detect if it’s bot. That way Ecosia can know when to send a captcha.
And the search request is sent by Ecosia without the IP or identifying informations.
As it says also in your quote, they just don’t share IP and search term together. More detailed description from https://www.ecosia.org/privacy under “What data do you share with search results providers?”.
For example, when searching for “tree” on Ecosia we forward the following information to our partner, Bing: IP address (to a separate fraud detection server, so your search term and IP address are never sent to the same server), meta-data on your device that is necessary for the result like screen size, search term, and some settings like your country and language setting.
Yeah, just got there as I am doing things in the meantime.
Would the IP address and search results be able to be put back together? Wouldn’t a lot of IP Adresses be sent at the same time reducing the possibility of linking an ip address to a search result?
so the ip and the search are still both sent to microsoft?
just because they aren’t sent to the ‘same server’ doesn’t mean that microsoft can’t reassemble the data.
It uses, bing… so its anti privacy. And yeah it shares your ip like a broadcaster.
DDG also uses Bing, and it’s possible to block the XHR connection to Bing in Ecosia.
ecosia started blocking me after like two page views because my firefox blocks or alters ‘too much’.
You mean lesser evil? ddg
ddg is evil?
I don’t know about evil, but my results have been filled with AI generated crap sites lately. I don’t know if others are doing any better filtering them out, but it is making me think to look elsewhere besides ddg
Sadly yes… But lesser and lesser
How so? Can you please provide something
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
They have their fair share of questionable practices. Most prominent was being in the bed with Micro$$oft. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo#Controversies
I think they messed with search result ranking as well.
I mean, which engine are you primarily using?
Primarily ddg.
Whoogle.
Both: I use SearXNG!
Mullvad Leta, although i’m pondering about getting kagi
Neither. Ecosia.
Their updated privacy policy keeps a lot of data and shares with bing. Not good.
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The duck, Chuck, because it doesn’t suck.
MetaGer for me, run by a non profit and you can choose to pay for search results to be ad-free and get more search options.
Ever since Snowden I switched to DDG. You start to get used to one search engine vs the other. So after a bit DDG was just superior to me.
