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DDG is now offering free/private AI chat using several models.

  • TAG@lemmy.worldEnglish
    252·
    8 months ago

    That is how DDG search works as well. They take your search query and send it to a regular, data harvesting search engine. The engine does not see your IP address and cannot track you with a cookie but they can monitor the search queries of DDG users in aggregate.

    • Squizzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      8 months ago

      Ddg doesnt work for search anymore, completely compromised giving the same results as google and others, exact same bubble you are in. I dont want personalisation

      • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        It works very well for me still. I haven’t noticed anything weird.

        • Squizzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          8 months ago

          Hooefully it stays like that for you. For me I use it on all devices but they are all independent. If I search a random name it will find doctors etc. close to me with that name, down to my town. If I turn off location I will get a few general results and then back to localised.

          It is incredibly annoying, especially when doing research as I cannot get out of the localised loop. Recently I needed a legislative policy from France but could not remember the name of the policy so I searched for the intention of the policy and got local results by local papers and local politicians discussing similar legislation. I could not get to the French results without using a VPN and I got very different results then.

          There is also the concern then that ddg are sending my IP with the query. So I get bad results and no privacy.