Is Friday Christmas just as good?

Done

Thanks for the red circle, I was really lost there for a moment

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Let’s produce marginally less data - tracker removed:

https://youtu.be/scyA9cnbja4

Are you getting better deals with the India setting?

Nice. Are you the only one on your instance? I seem to recall reading there’s a privacy consideration there. Like, maybe the ideal is knowing the maintainer and having some number of people all using it.

Great recommendations, and you got a Whoogle in there as well!

Looking into some of those instance maintainers.

Thank you!

48 engines available on a SearXNG instance I just checked:

Amazing project!

Getting good at queries, I’m down for that, thanks 🙂

Oh Bing

Search is hard

Good call though, I’ve done comparisons and it’s very Bingy though not 1:1 - search operators behave differently IIRC (quotation marks)

Oh so you want me to spend an extra fraction of a second to avoid an absolute privacy nightmare that could follow me around for the rest of my life?! (including potential price discrimination stealing e.g. a better retirement from me)

😉 thanks for testing!

Good question, something I wondered about after I posted.

Nope - OK, you know what helps?

Searching via the DDG site and then tapping images. Apparently I typed “reavers gif !ddgi” to save the tap and it does a hidden spelling correction to “reverse”?!

One mystery solved!

Edit: annotation in a dark font due to iOS 18 Markup bug, sorry it’s hard to see there in the upper right

And it’s different now! Reminded of how DDG rearranges search results when opening a result link, then hitting back, but much more extreme.

sprawling profile

Using a fresh [cookie-isolated] private tab for every search and going through iCloud Private Relay… I still have no doubt they still manage it. Sigh. Those “am I unique?” browser fingerprinting tests still show I’m unique, perhaps due to having an extension or two installed on Safari? Creepy.

OK, I feel better now. On searxng.site, I disabled all engines except for Google and I’m getting results similar to in my OP.

You’re right :) Dumb little joke about the show I shoehorned in.

For context, DuckDuckGo is my default search engine. I do at least a dozen searches every day. Approximately 90% of the time, I use a bang (!g) to punch out to Google and receive results I perceive to be of higher quality 99% of the time. I am absolutely elated when I hit the back button because DDG had a better result in the top 3.

It decided not to do a hidden autocorrect to reverse this time:

(Same everything (new private tab), just zoomed out.)

Hmm!

Funny and accurate

I agree it gets complex for users. But pushing back a bit, wouldn’t we instead say:

We could tell new users “Sign up on Lemmy.com and if you decide you don’t like the UI aren’t a pedophile just choose an alternative and use the same credentials to sign in make sure you start blocking.”

I have in mind that the top blocked instances are pedo oriented. Also seems like it would create a liability issue for servers mirroring that content.

Although it’s not a perfect solution to choose a default instance for new users, I do think it’s a powerful question to eliminate.

“Dang I could really use a hit right now”

“Well at least they can’t detect these tobacco patches“

Wonder how you get negative one down vote…

You see this?

Someone should audit your downvote