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Re:Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who tu... by dismalpedigree on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @10:46PM (#30173434)
I have been using DDG for years. I inadvertently used google for a search (damn browser defaults) and i was genuinely difficult to find something relevant with the amount of ads cluttering it up.
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Re:Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who tu... by codyb on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @11:18PM (#30173652)
Yea I’m always amazed when I inadvertently search via Google for something these days.
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Re:Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who tu... by Kliment on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @02:32AM (#30174808)
Yeah, whenever I end up on google for whatever reason I get a nag screen to try to trick me into agreeing to their tracking crap (with no easy way to say "fuck off, no") and it seems to come back very frequently. I use ddg pretty much exclusively now.
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Re:Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who tu... by Closi on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @02:27AM (#30174777)
There are Firefox extensions that hide the ads which make a huge difference to search quality.
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