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Indeed, the reasons to dump Google just keep on mounting. A pet peeve of mine is how they keep making harder and harder to tell what's actual search results and

Indeed, the reasons to dump Google just keep on mounting. A pet peeve of mine is how they keep making harder and harder to tell what's actual search results and what's google ads. For this reason I actually prefer duckduckgo.com/lite. Check it out, great contrast on ads. Unfortunately I haven't been able to use this as default search engine on Firefox. Has anyone solved this?

ocdtrekkie 9y ago
duckduck.com isn't owned by DDG. Don't shorten a URL, people will think it's real, I tried it. :( duckduckgo.com/lite has WONDERFUL ad highlighting, this is what I think should be the legal minimum for it. Not just for transparency, but for safety and security. Google continues to allow advertisers to display a fake URL on the search page, but actually send you somewhere else, leading to things like this, last week: http://www.zdnet.com/article/scammers-tricked-google-into-posting-amazon-scam-ads/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/scammers-tricked-google-into-po...
- fwdpropaganda 9y ago
  > duckduck.com isn't owned by DDG. Don't shorten a URL, people will think it's real, I tried it. :( Sorry, typo. Fixed it. > duckduckgo.com/lite has WONDERFUL ad highlighting Yes. Have you figured out if it can be used as default search engine on Firefox? I haven't been able to... And I'm not talking about a "bookmark keyword", I managed to get that to work.
  - ocdtrekkie 9y ago
    I haven't tried to. I just was commenting on having visited it upon your recommendation. :)
  - jerf 9y ago
    I can't remember if I've just done this on all my browsers a long time ago or what, but if you go to the main web page for duckduckgo.com, and click on the icon that shows up on the bottom of the page, you should be taken to a sort of slideshow about how wonderful DDG is, which should have a big "Add DuckDuckGo to Firefox" on it. That will make it appear as a search provider you can get to via the normal search configuration.
detaro 9y ago
> Unfortunately I haven't been able to use this as default search engine on Firefox. Has anyone solved this? https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/duckduckgo-lite/ https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/duckduckgo-lite/ ?
- fwdpropaganda 9y ago
  I have tried this in the past and didn't work. I would just land on the duckduckgo.com/lite blank page, with no search results. And I have also try it right now and can't even install (I'm assuming it's because Firefox recently moved to version 59.0)
  - detaro 9y ago
    works here, tried it before suggesting it :/
    - fwdpropaganda 9y ago
      How strange. Well, thanks for the info.
      - detaro 9y ago
        Just noticed that it only works when searching for single words, not for multiple. That might be it.
        fwdpropaganda 9y ago
        I just tried that and for me neither works.

ocdtrekkie 9y ago

duckduck.com isn't owned by DDG. Don't shorten a URL, people will think it's real, I tried it. :( duckduckgo.com/lite has WONDERFUL ad highlighting, this is what I think should be the legal minimum for it. Not just for transparency, but for safety and security. Google continues to allow advertisers to display a fake URL on the search page, but actually send you somewhere else, leading to things like this, last week: http://www.zdnet.com/article/scammers-tricked-google-into-posting-amazon-scam-ads/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/scammers-tricked-google-into-po...

fwdpropaganda 9y ago
> duckduck.com isn't owned by DDG. Don't shorten a URL, people will think it's real, I tried it. :( Sorry, typo. Fixed it. > duckduckgo.com/lite has WONDERFUL ad highlighting Yes. Have you figured out if it can be used as default search engine on Firefox? I haven't been able to... And I'm not talking about a "bookmark keyword", I managed to get that to work.
- ocdtrekkie 9y ago
  I haven't tried to. I just was commenting on having visited it upon your recommendation. :)
- jerf 9y ago
  I can't remember if I've just done this on all my browsers a long time ago or what, but if you go to the main web page for duckduckgo.com, and click on the icon that shows up on the bottom of the page, you should be taken to a sort of slideshow about how wonderful DDG is, which should have a big "Add DuckDuckGo to Firefox" on it. That will make it appear as a search provider you can get to via the normal search configuration.

detaro 9y ago

> Unfortunately I haven't been able to use this as default search engine on Firefox. Has anyone solved this? https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/duckduckgo-lite/ https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/duckduckgo-lite/ ?

fwdpropaganda 9y ago
I have tried this in the past and didn't work. I would just land on the duckduckgo.com/lite blank page, with no search results. And I have also try it right now and can't even install (I'm assuming it's because Firefox recently moved to version 59.0)
- detaro 9y ago
  works here, tried it before suggesting it :/
  - fwdpropaganda 9y ago
    How strange. Well, thanks for the info.
    - detaro 9y ago
      Just noticed that it only works when searching for single words, not for multiple. That might be it.
      - fwdpropaganda 9y ago
        I just tried that and for me neither works.