I have always liked and used Duck duck go more than google but now i am considering if i should switch because of the shit they pulled with their app and yesterday when i clicked a link it took me directly to their newsletter subsciption page not even like a popup a proper page without any way except manually backing out . So is there a better alternative or is DDG still the best ? Would appreciate if the search ingine came with firefox and i don’t have to jump through hoops to use it. I moved the post from ask lemmy to here .

  • Jahuffine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    237·
    9 months ago

    For a while I was self hosting whoogle but it’s been kind of problematic and gets rate limited very quickly. I have been looking at switching to searxng. For both of these you can find some hosted for the public but their security may not be as robust as a company like duck duck go would be. It’s a shame too that duckduckgo does actually collect data and send it to Microsoft as part of their agreement in order to use bing as their backend.

    • Engywuck@lemm.eeEnglish
      16·
      9 months ago

      The data collection of DDG only regarded their browser, not the search engine.

    • Scott@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      Running whoogle aswell and never been rate limited, but I did need to setup a horizontal pod autoscalaer on my deployment because it kept getting into a invalid state. Now kubernetes will just shoot the pod in the head and spin up another. Lol

    • resketreke@kbin.social
      1·
      9 months ago

      I was self-hosting a whoogle instance but it stopped working and instead it would send me to google to accept cookies, so I nuked it.