Russia fucking sucks but this, at least, is true. (The West sucks too, don't get me wrong. I ain't going to Russia but i will use their search engine.)

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 5 points 2 weeks ago

As to pedons we should use tools available to us.

Fuck Russia but yeah I will use their tech tools to fuck domestic westpid corpos who are a lot more of threat to me than Russian regime or corpos.

Remember folks when you lay for media, you are funding your enemies. Largely

[–] radical_larry@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

Because the West aint getting the data from Russia. If you are Western I hope you dont end up in Russia and/or puppet states.

[–] idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What is your use case, I 'm just simply interested.

My workflow for finding things, I know where I want to search it for, e.g. a torrent site or a specific forum or network, and search there. If I would search for something on a general search engine like those, even if it would give good results, I would have to weed out the fake and scam results. While if I search on an already reputable site or source I don't have to deal with that.

[–] incognito08@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

movies, tv shows, things like that. I'm not American so search keeps suggesting things from my country and most of the time I only get "review/geek sites" when I search for something specific.

[–] idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There are local trackers everywhere, try to get an invite to them. I'm Hungarian, we have several invite only trackers for dubbed movies and other local content. Even they are invite only, it's really easy to get an invite as a lot of folks have account on them.

For that kind of content I would look for your local communities on reddit, fb or whatever social media is common in your country. Try to find out what others use, and try to get an invite there.

Fmhy has a list of non-english sources: https://fmhy.net/non-english

[–] incognito08@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks for the advices!

[–] ComradeMiao@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

So you want to search or want suggestions? A good tracker also has suggestions. You should never need to search on a search engine and it would also be slower.

[–] MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I've been using duck duck for the last 2 years and it's fine if you don't need localized results. If I'm searching for x thing in y area then I go back to Google for that.

[–] downhomechunk@midwest.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

I use ddg to search for things in my area all the time. I just use near instead of near me.

I'm not google free though. I pay for YouTube premium and have a couple Gmail addresses.

[–] GlenRambo@jlai.lu 2 points 2 weeks ago

Rounder you can bang duckduck....that is to say.

Search term !g will lead yoir search in google. !GI for Google images. Theres hundred's.

[–] Packet@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Use searXNG with rotating instances and if anything Startpaage is everything you need. DuckDuckGo is not bad, but had some bad cases

[–] ComradeMiao@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

Rotating instances? I love searx! So much better results than Duck

[–] HeavyRaptor@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 weeks ago

One of the things I like about DDG is that you can turn localised results on/off whenever you like and even chose the location. Also localised search is pretty good for me too.

[–] Fijxu@programming.dev 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I think so? It's pretty solid and it works well overall. Anything is better than Google or Bing for your online privacy. If you want more privacy, you can try using SearxNG or 4get

[–] Cornflake@pawb.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

I like the DuckDuckGo search engine, but I don't care much for their browsers (mobile nor desktop). I do keep the browser app on my phone so I can generate alias Duck addresses, I do find that feature pretty handy.

As for how private DDG search is, I feel like the best practice for using any search engine privately is to clear browser data when you're done searching with it. That's a hassle though, so it's smart to have a browser dedicated to temporary browsing sessions that you don't plan to go back to later. On Android, browsers like Firefox (and forks like Mull) as well as Cromite allow you to set it so browsing data clears when you exit the browser.

[–] Techlos@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

yandex is pretty solid for finding media

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago

duckduckgo seems to provide weird llm generated "summaries" instead of actual description recently though. I heard they come from Bing but not entirely sure.

[–] Pyrin@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

From my experience, not really. It's more of a chore. I still find it ironically useful through Google.