Ask HN: How have you left Google's services?

Re:Ask HN: How have you left Google's services? by siquick on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @08:44PM (#12301730)

One thing that really helped me stop relying on Google for search was when I realised that I could precede any search on DuckDuckGo with `!g` if I didn't find what I wanted on DDG and it would switch to encrypted.google.com

"!g my search term"

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Re:Ask HN: How have you left Google's services? by xeniak on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @08:58PM (#12301783)

Prefixing with !sp will redirect your query to Startpage, which is essentially an anonymous proxy for Google.

So Google will still get to log and analyse your search terms, but they will be aggregated with all other users of Startpage - lots of noise.

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Re:Ask HN: How have you left Google's services? by siquick on Thursday August 18, 2016 @07:30PM (#12316995)

good stuff, thank you

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Re:Ask HN: How have you left Google's services? by Kinnard on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @08:45PM (#12301735)

Ditto

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