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YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on ARM systems (social.treehouse.systems)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 26 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I tried duckduckgo for a while and kept coming back to Google for "real" searches at work. It's not as good for searching in my experience. Yet.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Duckduckgo has become a little better than it used to be... but google has also become a whole lot worse.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The vast majority of times I go back to Google to do a search I find it also returns useless results. I'm not convinced it's any better than duckduckgo. I think it used to be, but not anymore.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I had the same experience. I used switch between DDG and Google when DDG gave results I didn't want. During the pandemic, I remember DDG giving lots of false positives and odd, non-standard web page hits. Like, if I was searching for current COVID advice, it would give me hits from the health department in Bumfuck, Nebraska instead of, say, CDC (and I don't live in Bumfuck, Nebraska). It has really improved since then and now I can use DDG pretty much exclusively. Not having to scroll past a page of Google ads to find my search results is quite glorious.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Big same. I’ll even bang out to Startpage to try to avoid directly using Google (!sp vs. !g), but that’s not as good either.

    I bow to my search overlord Google. Until I try Grasp, Kagi, and SearXNG, and hopefully one of those will satisfy (in particular SearXNG).

    Until then DDG remains my default, and I’ll !g half the time :(

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Did you use Kagi? How was it?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    One of the three on my to-try list, still.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I tried it a few months ago and bought it before the trial was over. Took some time to build trust but it’s still on par with google if not better.

    (My account probably looks like a shill for them but I swear I’m just a happy user)

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