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DDG is simply awesome. I like to see the world as it is, not as some corporation thinks I like to see it as. Also, as comments do point out. No point using DDG
by zapf 7y ago
DDG is simply awesome. I like to see the world as it is, not as some corporation thinks I like to see it as.
Also, as comments do point out. No point using DDG on Chrome. One has to switch to FF - which is seriously fast enough for my daily needs, both on ubuntu and android.
Finally, there's still two things we need to break free form tracking services.
1. A non google play store smart phone.
2. Get off gmail.
I am failing on both of the above.
- h2onock 7y ago"I like to see the world as it is, not as some corporation thinks I like to see it as". You realise that DDG uses Bing results, right?
- zapf 7y agoI am just counting on them not personalising my search results based on whatever data about me they have access to. If they don't personalise then they essentially don't "color my world view". I know google has a similar option, but I think some of us have stopped trusting them.
- martin_a 7y ago> 2. Get off gmail. What keeps you sticking to this? I read this often and can only wonder why. A TLD + 50 GB webspace costs you around 2 Euro/month here in Germany and you have full control over your mail. I also find that it creates a sense of importance and seriousnesses (like in "cares about his/her communication"), if you use your own domain for mails. As long as it's not something like "hello@cuntdestroyer69.mail", obviously. Most automatic spam filters work quite well and can also be trained, if not your client is doing the filtering. And some hosters also provide catch-all addresses which are great for seeing who misuses your mail address. All in all, I never understood the attractiveness of Gmail, when using your own mail is so easy.
- NetBeck 7y agoThis would give insight into why self-hosting email is becoming a more difficult task.[1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19756125 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19756125
- martin_a 7y agoThen let's break Google by not obliging to their "standards" and using their systems. Help other people to use something different than GMail and so on.
- climb_stealth 7y agoMan, I have been struggling to find a good domain to use for months. I have a custom domain already but don't use it for everything. Ideally, I would like to have one that is - fairly short - .com - unambiguous when written with a pen on forms - easy to spell on the phone It's the last 3 I find important for an official domain. gmail for example is easy to mention on the phone as everyone knows it. I always have to repeat my fastmail address 3 times and spell it out as people don't know it.
- calvinmorrison 7y agofastmail has a bunch of domains you can use besides fastmail.com! letterboxes.org is a personal fav. (though I often give out my pobox email because - it's so easy to say P O box.com to people!
- martin_a 7y agoI'm using a combination of three letters from my first and my last name. For you it could be "cliste.com" (taken in this case), maybe this works with your real name. This concept is also fairly easy to explain on the phone, at least I found it to be. But the .com space is probably more crowded than .de in my case, so you might not find it so easy to get a nice URL.
- jpalomaki 7y agoIf you care about security, you should really think how professional a 2€/month hosting provider can be. Security and sysadmin expertise is not free. Same thing with hosting your own. Just start mapping the potential vulnerabilities. Starting for example from simple social engineering attacks against your domain registrant or hosting provider to take over your domain/servers.
- martin_a 7y agoWebhosters are providing the same service with standardized configs, and no option to diverge from it, to thousands of users. Economies of scale. And any professional webhosting provider won't do worse than Google, just on a smaller scale.