What are your opinions on Yahoo search now?

    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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      19 days ago

      You can permanently disable the chatbot in full DDG search. Click the little gear.

      It does make me wonder what API they use. I thought it was huggingface (which would be less bad), but they don’t say it explicitly.

      • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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        18 days ago

        You can permanently disable the chatbot in full DDG search. Click the little gear.

        Not if you use a private browser. They save that setting using cookies, which usually are deleted when you close the browser.

        Which highlights how dumb that setup is (by which I mean using cookies for settings). The privacy-friendly search engine compromises your privacy with AI when you use a private browser

    • lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      19 days ago

      There’s a Lite?? Oh my gosh, you’re a hero. I use private browsing a lot (lol) and the site would never remember me disabling the chatbot.

        • HouseWolf@pawb.social
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          19 days ago

          Now this is what I really wanted!

          I had cookies enabled for DDG but their stupid chatbot still re-enabled itself more than once which was enough for me to switch.

          However now I’m used to how fast DDG Lite loads…

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            18 days ago

            Yes, the speed of DDG Lite is amazing. There’s also DDG HTML, which is very fast too. I would like Ecosia to have a lite mode as well.

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      18 days ago

      Been using a self-hosted SearXNG instance for 6 months now and its results have been so much better than Google or DDG. Definitely give it a shot