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I am one of the complainers about the bad ddg localized results, espacially for french ones. But one day, I experienced what it was to use Google without ubloc
by BiteCode_dev 6y ago
I am one of the complainers about the bad ddg localized results, espacially for french ones.
But one day, I experienced what it was to use Google without ublock origin, by mistake. It was a horrible mess.
Then it hit me: the main benefit of DDG is that it's clean, even if you don't know anything about ad blockers.
- scaryclam 6y agoFunnily enough, the clean thing is what really kick-started google (at least for the group of people I know). Going from the unholy mess of links on Yahoo! to google with their single search box and a couple of links was a giant step forward.
- eitland 6y agoEven more funny they had a decade of my searches and online activity before I started adblocking and supposedly some of the sharpest minds of our time employeed to make me click on ads and I can't recall buying a single thing from a Google ad, mostly because the ads where ridiculously misplaced. Facebook on the other hand, a company where I only have a minimal profile since I utterly distrust them[0] manages to serve me not only less annoying but sometimes actual useful ads (as: I've bought things from Instagram or Facebook ads that have saved me money and improved my quality of life). [0]: Google I just dislike and treat with caution. They seem competent with data security and obsessed with protecting all their juicy data even if - at least to me - they seem so utterly incompetent at uskng it to match ads to profiles that I have suggested it might be some sort of scam against ad buyers ;-)