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Re:Let's start using DuckDuckGo more often by whatshisface on Friday December 30, 2016 @11:39AM (#13285233)
>* the fact that Google is not anonymous does give them a big advantage.*

What if DDG allowed us to manually tell them information about our demographic in a way that wasn't stored on their servers and could be changed at will? If you want convenience, maybe there could be an optional client-side preference detector script that only offered possible configurations.

Re:Let's start using DuckDuckGo more often by joeclark77 on Friday December 30, 2016 @11:41AM (#13285254)
Good idea. I definitely don't want them "filtering" my results without my permission, but with permission is fine.
Re:Let's start using DuckDuckGo more often by IgorPartola on Friday December 30, 2016 @11:43AM (#13285271)
What a drag. So now I have to set up a profile of my ever changing interests on all of my devices just so I can get an approximation of what Google offers out of the box?

Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of not using Google, but this seems like a very user hostile way to do it.

Re:Let's start using DuckDuckGo more often by gtf21 on Friday December 30, 2016 @12:09PM (#13285478)
I actually think this gives one slightly better control. I've experienced a weird phenomenon on Facebook where a contact of mine kept posting borderline conspiracy theories and I kept correcting him, but now all I get are his posts and it's really quite infuriating.

I would prefer conscious filtering to this automated (and obscure) filtering that Google et al. utilise. I understand it's not for everyone, but it would suit me far better.

Re:Let's start using DuckDuckGo more often by IgorPartola on Friday December 30, 2016 @02:44PM (#13286823)
Sure it is more control. Just like pushing electrons with a magnetized needle is even more control. It doesn't mean it's convenient.

Now if you had an ML algorithm running in your browser that analyzed your preferences and transparently changed your DDG searches from "Django" to "Django web framework", you might get something closer to what you get with Google. Wonder if Firefox could make that happen.

Re:Let's start using DuckDuckGo more often by hedora on Friday December 30, 2016 @12:11PM (#13285497)
Ddg lets you transfer settings cookies using "cloud save", or bookmarklets. Here is a bookmarklet:

https://duckduckgo.com/?kl=jp-jp&kae=t&kt=g

With cloud save, you pick a password, and have to type that in once on each device.

They don't support bubbling, or user profiling, so you can't dump/restore those.

Re:Let's start using DuckDuckGo more often by sp332 on Friday December 30, 2016 @12:11PM (#13285492)
Re:Let's start using DuckDuckGo more often by hedora on Friday December 30, 2016 @12:31PM (#13285660)
That is a nice UI, but it seems to be for ad targeting (based on the URL). The more fundamental difference is that google knows nearly everything about you already, so this is helping them complete a dossier on you.

I think the parent poster was asking for a feature more like "I use LaTeX to document Django. This is all you should know about me. Go."

Put another way, can I fill that form out, create a google search bookmarklet that encodes my responses client-side, and then use it with all google cookies and ad domains blocked?

Re:Let's start using DuckDuckGo more often by lostlogin on Friday December 30, 2016 @01:05PM (#13285921)
Giving your browser a resume is both hilarious and creepy - I like this idea a lot more than what Google do though.
Re:Let's start using DuckDuckGo more often by sp332 on Saturday December 31, 2016 @10:33AM (#13291415)
But you can also edit your search history, YouTube watching history, synced Chrome browsing history etc. You can make up new Google profiles with different interests.