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So, until about a week or so ago, I was able to watch #YouTube videos on #DuckDuckGo without having to go to YouTube, which was nice because then I didn't have to watch any ads! Similarly, if I clicked on an image on DDG's image search, it would just open the image in a new window. It seems both features have been disabled. Clicking on the video now takes me to YouTube, and clicking on an image takes me to the parent site. Anyone know what happened or why?

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@marginalia Like, with one single exception, my results for "adhd bullet journal" on #DuckDuckGo and #Google were all super verbose lengthy AI-generated nonsense advice that ultimately said nothing of substance.

And that exception is also just due to someone owning the domain "bulletjournal" verbatim.

#Marginalia for me used to be just a fun toy or tech experiment, but now it's genuinely the only way I could possibly find information on some topics, even if I didn't want to. Crazy.

Je viens de découvrir que DuckDuckGo (le moteur de recherche) a une IA active par défaut.
Pour s'en débarrasser, "modifier les paramètres de recherche" par la roue, aller en bas à "Fonctionnalités de l'IA", "gérer".

I think, i've figured out one of the last remaining #UX pet peeves in #KDE #KDEneon.

I have multiple monitors, and pushing the mouse pointer across the boundary felt rather laborious - too much effort, by default.

An #LLM, via ddg.gg (that's #DuckDuckGo) pointed me in the right direction → KDE Settings → search for "edge" → find this, see screenshot → yoink, done. 😃 👍

Oh, ups - gerade zufällig herausgefunden, dass das Bild-Suchergebnis auf #DuckDuckGo zu "Club Mate" mit safe-search-off so, ehm, wirklich ganz anders aussieht, wenn man nicht den Haken bei "Germany" gesetzt hat 😆. #nsfw

Can’t escape the slop

I disabled #AI assist on #DuckDuckGo, but even when I do, I still get a bunch of search results that point me to 100% AI-generated web pages. Nowadays anyone can just fuzz search engines like #Google for lists of commonly searched queries, then generate slop responses to these queries, then cache the slop, and then use shady SEO techniques to get these slop pages to show up at the top of search results. And this is what I have been getting from a lot of my web searches lately, content from slop shops.

A part of me thinks companies like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon may themselves be investing in these shady slop shops to deliberately make traditional search engines useless, which would “incentivize” people to use #LLM -based AI like Gemini or #ChatGPT more often, though that is purely speculation on my part.

If you had asked my 20 years ago that the #Internet of the future would rapidly devolve and become increasingly useless as time went on, I would have dismissed you as a paranoid crackpot. Here we are in the future and I still can hardly believe how shitty technology is becoming.

¿Qué opinión tiene la comunidad mastodonte sobre el navegador #duckduckgo en general?, ¿alguien lo utiliza como navegador predeterminado?, ¿el no contar con extensiones es problemático?, ¿lo consideran un navegador confiable o son más de cosas como #searx o cosas por el estilo?.