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I switched to DDG even though the search results are not as good as Google's. And not for privacy reasons either. The reason I switched is that it has become
by TekMol 5y ago
I switched to DDG even though the search results are not as good as Google's.
And not for privacy reasons either.
The reason I switched is that it has become too cumbersome to get english results from Google.
In the past I went to google.com/ncr and was good to go.
Nowadays I 1) go to google.com/ncr then 2) Need click away their cookie banner and 3) have to go to google.com/ncr again.
If I only go to google.com/ncr and click away the cookie banner, I still get results based on my location. For example, when I google "tradingview nasdaq", I want www.tradingview.com/symbols/NASDAQ-NDX/ - I don't want <localizedsubdomain>.tradingview.com/symbols/NASDAQ-NDX/
With DDG, I just go to duck.com and I am good to go.
So if anyone from Google reads this - this is the reason you lost me.
- bellyfullofbac 5y agoGoogle is insanely moronical nowadays. I use YouTube's English interface (do they have localized interfaces?), watching videos in the language of the country where I currently reside. After a while I noticed the titles were in English although the people were talking in the local language. I figured out YouTube was auto-translating them... is there a setting to disable this? Nope. A while ago it was doing the reverse, translating all video titles to the local (where I live) language. I was watching American gaming content but the titles were in a different language. Fuck you very much, YouTube.