Using Google whilst Duck Duck Go is down. How long has Google been this bad?

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So ddg is down, so I visit Google. It's been some years.

I just can't believe how poor it's results are, and how it's trying to suggest things it think I might also want (and failing miserably).

I just assumed ddg would be the lesser, but I use it for privacy. Turns out I'm wrong.

How long has Google been this bad?

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Thanks for sharing - didnt know. Thats a long list ..... So which search engine is good and privacy friendly then?

It depends on what you're trying to be private from. Kagi has been good to me so far, my goal is mainly to escape from corporate/ad profile tracking.

Kagi is great. Excellent search results for the most part, better than either DDG or Google in my experience.

It's disingenuous to say there's no point in striving for privacy if you're not going to go completely off grid. There are always better and worse options.

If someone said they were concerned about their sugar intake would you tell them to just stop eating entirely? It's possible to take steps towards privacy-friendly services without cutting yourself off from the modern world in the same way as you can cut back on sugar and still eat food.

You absolutely do not need to "burn all your devices" to improve your privacy, suggesting so is unhelpful at best.