• Jarmer@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    This is why I whitelist duckduckgo in firefox in my ublock extension. I will gladly look at the relevant ads at the top of the list, knowing they are just that. I glance at them, most of the time it’s a sales pitch, I go “not interested” and just move down the page to the results. 100% fine with that.

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        1 year ago

        I’m working on a home project, so when I search on ddg for “how to build raised garden boxes” I get some “shopping” links with the word “ads” right next to it clearly visible, which I instantly skip over, then two text results labeled clearly as “ads” then the actual results. One text result is a sales pitch for a premade garden box and the other is a link to a video instruction (which I’m assuming will also have a sales pitch) so I can easily skip over those two links and now I’m at the results. No video or sound at all and it’s all labeled as such for me. I’m using a default “dark” theme under the appearance settings.

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      1 year ago

      Personally I’m starting to try just paying for search with neeva and kagi. Not sure it’s worth what kagi wants, but neeva is inside my yearly threshold.