duckduckgo seems to provide weird llm generated "summaries" instead of actual description recently though. I heard they come from Bing but not entirely sure.
this post was submitted on 09 Dec 2024
50 points (94.6% liked)
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ
55064 readers
340 users here now
⚓ Dedicated to the discussion of digital piracy, including ethical problems and legal advancements.
Rules • Full Version
1. Posts must be related to the discussion of digital piracy
2. Don't request invites, trade, sell, or self-promote
3. Don't request or link to specific pirated titles, including DMs
4. Don't submit low-quality posts, be entitled, or harass others
Loot, Pillage, & Plunder
📜 c/Piracy Wiki (Community Edition):
💰 Please help cover server costs.
 |
 |
|---|---|
| Ko-fi | Liberapay |
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
yandex is pretty solid for finding media
Bing no, duckduckgo yes.
In my experience, Yandex has always been better for piracy than any other search engine.
Russian corps ain't got no reason to protect "property rights" of some clown westoid corporate at their own expense
There is a benefit for US not controlling the entire world
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.)
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
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.
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.
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.
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
Thanks for the advices!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Use searXNG with rotating instances and if anything Startpaage is everything you need. DuckDuckGo is not bad, but had some bad cases
Rotating instances? I love searx! So much better results than Duck
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.
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
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.
From my experience, not really. It's more of a chore. I still find it ironically useful through Google.