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    4 days ago

    How is DuckDuckGo shitty? It suits me fine.

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      Here are my gripes:

      1. Uses Bing for a backend
      2. Too many ads
      3. Tries to be too much like Google
      4. Continuous attempts to force feed me AI
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        Ah yes, I have to admit the constant AI shilling does make me want to look elsewhere. I also didn’t know that it’s basically askjeeves but for B‽ng, lol

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      That’s not the word I would use but yeah, it’s basically a frontend for Bing. And what’s especially annoying is that it serves you links to unpaywalled news that’s behind an MSN paywall.

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        Thanks for that because I do feel like, thinking back to earlier today it wasn’t giving me the video result I was looking for when searching for “Chinese tiktok make America great again”

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      shoves results about completely different contexts of the words, most noticeable when trying to look up game mechanics which share names with IRL phenomenon.

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        I’m starting to be convinced that it really is being enshittified almost daily lol