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While there are good alternatives like DuckDuckGo, Mojeek, or Ecosia, there are also ad-free alternatives, where you're not the product, like Kagi [1] or Uruky
by BrunoBernardino 5mo ago
While there are good alternatives like DuckDuckGo, Mojeek, or Ecosia, there are also ad-free alternatives, where you're not the product, like Kagi [1] or Uruky [2] (I co-founded Uruky, which is also currently and for the foreseeable future "No-AI")!
[1]: https://kagi.com https://kagi.com
[2]: https://uruky.com https://uruky.com
- aloisdg 5mo agois it foss?
- BrunoBernardino 5mo agoNo, but you do get the source code after 12 months of being a paying customer (signing an NDA), though we're considering releasing the code under AGPLv3 if we reach 300 monthly active accounts (we just reached 100 last week) before next year.
- yegg 5mo agoJust FYI, at DuckDuckGo we have a search setting to turn ads off: https://duckduckgo.com/settings https://duckduckgo.com/settings We also have a no ai version: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ https://noai.duckduckgo.com/
- latexr 5mo agoI hadn’t looked at the settings page in ages. Some interesting stuff in there. You can even block certain websites now (goodbye, Pinterest). It’s time I give DuckDuckGo another go. As I fiddle with the options, I was about to suggest there should be a private way to share settings to another device so I don’t have to redo everything on my phone, then I looked at the right side of the page and saw you already provide that! Overall great work, major thumbs up. Looking forward to trying some searches with you again. I do think I may have found a bug. Blocked sites aren’t being set across devices, neither by using the cloud save nor the bookmarklet.
- yegg 5mo agoThanks, and thanks for the report. Will investigate.
- marssaxman 5mo agoI switched to your service something like twelve or thirteen years ago now. I spent the first year or so adding `!g` to everything, but it's been a long time since I've felt the need to bother with that. Thanks for doing what you do.
- yegg 5mo agoThanks!
- fransje26 5mo agoI've been happily using DuckDuckGo on my devices for many years. The only gripe I have is that the default maps are painful to use. On my system (Linux + Firefox), for some reason, half the time they fail to load, and need a refresh to be displayed. Also, would it be possible to add the option to specify a region for the "Shopping" tab, in the same way it can be done for search & images?
- yegg 5mo agoThanks. On the maps, is this through a VPN?
- thesdev 5mo agoJust this morning I was helplessly looking at r/ecosia for a way to get rid of the new AI tab they've added (there's no way). Signed up for Uruky, let's see how it fares.
- BrunoBernardino 5mo agoThanks! Reach out for any suggestions, questions, or comments!
- prism56 5mo agoDoes it index new reddit content? I refuse to use Google, DDG doesn't seem to surface much new reddit content. Currently settled on Kagi but the price is a little steep, happy to support EU based services.
- BrunoBernardino 5mo agoI'm sure some of our providers do, but I can check, if you don't want to. What would be a search that would reveal that?
- yegg 5mo agoWe (DuckDuckGo) does if you add reddit to the query; that forces our reddit module to show.
- BrunoBernardino 5mo agoMy wife did just share she recently gets reddit at the top of long-tail searches, and I _believe_ her primary search provider is Mojeek.
- BrunoBernardino 5mo agoI said recently, but I meant "frequently". Too late to edit, now.
- simonklitj 5mo agoAm I right in that I cannot demo a couple of searches without subscribing?
- thesdev 5mo agoIt does appear that way, but when you click on register you get an account valid for one day, without having to fill in any data whatsoever.
- BrunoBernardino 5mo agoAs of two weeks ago, you can get a couple of hours for unlimited (rate-limited) testing, just go to top up your account (or try to search) and click the PoW local and private captcha to get that.
- bicepjai 5mo agoThanks for sharing this, I did not know about uruky. 5 euros no ads and unlimited take my money :) do you have pricing for agents search ?
- BrunoBernardino 5mo agoThanks! You can go nuts (there are only rate limits, not search limits, since we don't even track that count), since we have an API. It's in the FAQ.