Privacy

29872 readers

1231 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

Related communities

Chat rooms

[Matrix/Element]Dead
Discord

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

164

Mull (Firefox Fork) doesn't load Google.com. Switching useragent to Chrome "solves the issue" (streamable.com)

submitted 6 months ago by VicentAdultman@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

42 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Today, I noticed that Google wasn't loading on Mull (Firefox Fork). Switching useragent with the extension Chameleon makes the page load again.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Duck.com

Much better results and faster

[–] pizzawithdirt@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

DDG is just a Bing frontend. Using SearXNG is mostly better since you can get results from multiple sources.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

I think they use some yahoo data too and some of their own crawlers.

Results are not always the same in bing and DDG especia

[–] pistachio@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago

Since a few months ago I get so many AI generated blog articles as top results with ddg (a lot with google as well, but less so)

[–] DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I have a really hard time getting good local/region specific results for products, I mostly get US or UK results which are utterly useless to me since I'm not located either places. I've tried all sorts of shenanigans to limit the search to my area/country but it's not really effective.