2026-10-20 21:19 UTC
A reminder that search engines other than Google exist. I've set up DuckDuckGo as default on all my devices (iOS phone & iPad, and Windows laptop), and turned off all its AI elements.
Working well so far. Death to AI summaries, stealing people's work and dumbing us all down!
#ai
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@PeterLG@theblower.au 2026-10-20 21:23
@timrichards@aus.social The privacy and ad-blocking aspects of DDG work well, too.
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@bastardsheep@aus.social 2026-10-20 22:47
@timrichards@aus.social @stufromoz@aus.social People will twist themselves in to mobius strips to keep using Google and get anything of value from it, when DuckDuckGo and @kagihq@mastodon.social give so much better an experience out of the box, no twisting needed. I can't remember the last time I failed to find something on DDG or Kagi and Google was any better. Usually it's worse these days, doesn't get me anywhere near as close tonwhat I'm after.