Re:DuckDuckGo email protection beta now open
by yojo on Thursday August 25, 2022 @03:57PM
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The original Google ads were actually to the side - no way of confusing them with organic listings. Ads above results weren’t rolled out until 2007ish. Internally there was a lot of debate as to whether this might be confusing to users/evil, so the decision was to only show ads above results on queries that appeared to be high commercial intent. RIP old Google
Re:DuckDuckGo email protection beta now open
by dwighttk on Thursday August 25, 2022 @03:15PM
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True.
Not sure how paying for this service makes it any less likely that DDG will flip a switch to make that targeted advertising money though. That temptation will exist either with a paid service or a non targeted ad supported service.
Re:DuckDuckGo email protection beta now open
by vinaypai on Thursday August 25, 2022 @10:00PM
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Nothing is guaranteed, but at least you are the customer not the product if it's a paid service.
I have very little tolerance for companies that double-dip though. I subscribed to the New York Times for a while, but cancelled, in part, because they still stuffed their pages with ads both explicit and implicit.
Re:DuckDuckGo email protection beta now open
by tlholaday on Friday August 26, 2022 @07:16AM
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What are some of the reasons you expect a $4.25/week digital subscription to have fewer ads than a $20/week newsprint subscription?
Re:DuckDuckGo email protection beta now open
by vinaypai on Friday August 26, 2022 @08:27AM
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You need to be explained why it's cheaper to publish news to a website than print physical papers every morning and deliver them to homes across the country every single day in time for it to be relevant?
Re:DuckDuckGo email protection beta now open
by shukantpal on Friday August 26, 2022 @09:56AM
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Lmao show the numbers then. Is the cost of printing 75% of the newspaper- probably not.
Re:DuckDuckGo email protection beta now open
by codegladiator on Thursday August 25, 2022 @04:18PM
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What search engine do you use ( I am assuming its not google ) ?
Re:DuckDuckGo email protection beta now open
by vinaypai on Thursday August 25, 2022 @10:13PM
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I currently use Neeva. They're okay, but I'm still looking for a better option. I don't subscribe to their paid version because the upgrades you get just seem like silly gimics to me. They have some good ideas but fall short on execution in my mind.
I really want the option to turn off certain sites (eg. w3schools) entirely from search results, not just demote them.
Re:DuckDuckGo email protection beta now open
by Terretta on Thursday August 25, 2022 @03:47PM
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Consider paying for kagi.com.
Re:DuckDuckGo email protection beta now open
by ukd1 on Thursday August 25, 2022 @04:20PM
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As a paying subscriber, I 2nd this - it's great.
Re:DuckDuckGo email protection beta now open
by vinaypai on Thursday August 25, 2022 @10:05PM
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Thanks, I'll check them out.
Re:DuckDuckGo email protection beta now open
by troyvit on Thursday August 25, 2022 @07:08PM
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Personally I see a difference between a search company funded by ads vs a privacy company that leverages anonymous search ads to pay for its privacy offerings. I mean yeah DDG could completely flip its business model but what would they actually flip to? Their only main differentiator is that they are privacy friendly.
DuckDuckGo in 2022 is an upstart search provider promising a clean, minimal, user-focused ad-supported search experience as an alternative to entrenched search engines like Google.
I'm old enough to remember when Google was the new and exciting thing (just give it a try and ignore the stupid-sounding name!). For the longest time there wasn't even such a thing as a Google account, it just saved preferences like safe-search locally using cookies, and ads were just a small distinctly colored text bar above the organic search results, directly related to your search keywords.