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> downloading DuckDuckGo. What for? Just use the website via your favourite browser.

• wiether 5mo ago
  > My friends who previously had no interest in technology Their friend are probably the kind of people conflating Chrome/Google with "The Internet" And I think on Android its even less clear the distinction between the browser app and "Google"
• al_borland 5mo ago
  That’s what I told him… just set Safari to use it in Settings, but it seemed like he had already done it and was now invested in using a whole new app just to switch search engines. This is a symptom of the app-based model people now think in.
  • pavon 5mo ago
    And that mindset makes this move even more risky. If people move away from Chrome to DDG, Brave, or Kagi Orion browsers which block tracking by default, then that will harm their ad income even more.
• carlosjobim 5mo ago
  What for? Just tap the icon to open the app.