Tried using old reddit to browse all. Been doing it for years and years.
I guess fuck me, right. I dont even have an account and have no plans to make one.
Edit: oddly enough its letting me through now. Not sure exactly what’s flagging me but reddit has been fucky for months on my end.
Whats the likelihood of a man in the middle attack?
I havent touched google for what seems like years.
Which is depressing because the sites popularity was based on easy straight forward searching. That got so lost along the way.
Been trying to get away from google for a long while too, but DuckDuckGo feels like its been degrading significantly lately. I could give examples, but dont want to type and novel atm.
Is there any better privacy respecting search alternative out there besides DDG?
I’m finding that Ecosia works better than Google for many things.
if you can afford a paid option, I’ve heard good things about Kagi. It basically uses several backends (including google) but cuts out the ad junk. And it reportedly tends to give you better results, or at least less sponsored crap.
It’s something I wanted to try out more once I can get a dang job.
Can confirm, kagi has been great. I use their search as well as their news feed. They even have a filter for fediverse threads. (It doesn’t ever return many results, but they’re definitely ahead of the curve by having a replacement for the Google to Reddit pipeline ready to go.)
I find it worth paying for just to avoid dealing with google and Bing. Most of the “alt” search engines are just skins for those two anyway. I figure that’s just the cost to continue procrastinating setting up searx on my homelab, and I’m fine with that.