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DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being ‘force-fed’ Google’s AI Search (techcrunch.com)
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Apparently, there is an issue with the warning request to disable the ad blocker

I use Fennec F-Droid and Cromite, and I don't see this issue.

to get around the adblocker warning, use this link.

https://unwall.app/techcrunch.com/2026/05/26/duckduckgo-installs-are-up-30-as-users-reject-being-force-fed-googles-ai-search/

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[–] sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works 15 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

No, they're not, but they are one of the better-known alternatives to Google, and they do advocate privacy. This, in itself, is a good thing and should be promoted.

The problem is that Google's monopoly on web search is so large that using Google is the de facto standard for the vast majority of people. Getting them to acknowledge that there are alternatives to Google benefits privacy on the internet more than DDG having contracts with MS harms it.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

DuckDuckGo literally uses Bing for search results.

[–] Tenderizer@aussie.zone 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

What's the alternative? The basically unusable Mojeek? Rawdogging Bing? SearXNG?

[–] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 1 points 12 minutes ago* (last edited 9 minutes ago)

Qwant and Ecosia teamed up to make a European indexer/web crawler. They're still using Bing to pad the result quality for now but slowly phasing out reliance on Bing from what I understand.

Still, they also push AI so can use this argument:

https://www.qwant.com/?llm=0

Ecosia have to use cookies unfortunately to disable AI overview:

https://www.ecosia.org/settings

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 hours ago

Why should I literally care?