DuckDuckGo’s Scam Blocker now protects against fake crypto sites, scareware, phishing, and malware—without tracking your data .

It’s built into their browser with regular updates from independent firm Netcraft .

Privacy Pro subscribers get full-device protection via VPN .

@duckduckgo

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DuckDuckGo just leveled up its Scam Blocker! Now blocking fake crypto exchanges, bogus e-commerce sites & scareware pop-ups without tracking users. Stay safe with privacy-first protection that updates every 20 mins using real-time threat data from Netcraft. #Privacy #CyberSecurity #ScamBlocker #DuckDuckGo https://cyberinsider.com/duckduckgo-expands-scam-blocker-to-combat-fake-crypto-sites-and-scareware/
#newz

Now when I use DuckDuckGo to search the internet for casual information I get a special box of info called “Assist”. At the bottom of the box: “Auto-generated based on listed sources. May contain inaccuracies.”

What the? May contain inaccuracies? Why do it then? Just to waste my time?

What is this brave new world of possibly inaccurate information & what do I do about it?

Listen, Duck Duck... I selected "never" on the "Duck AI" because I DON'T WANT YOUR FUCKING AI!!! FUCK OOOOOOOOOFFFF!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DuckDuckGo news!!!

"Android disabled App Tracking Protection"

le website: "Please enter your official business email."

me: *enters a random, anonymous, temporary @ duck.com email alias*

#DuckDuckGo is falling apart, too.

How do I get search results like the ones we had in 2006?

I'm currently experiencing some issues with DuckDuckGo. It seems to be offline or otherwise unreachable from my end. I've tried pinging the service, but it's not responding.

Has anyone else noticed this issue or is it just on my side?

What Android browser is everyone using? #DuckDuckGo seems to have introduced an AI assistant to it's search engine, so looking to move on again

Sigh. Search for information about configuring #Wireguard on #FreeBSD. Second result on #DuckDuckGo is a slop web site, which initially looks plausible but then runs a bunch of configuration commands that don't exist on FreeBSD. It does make up plausible output from the FreeBSD equivalents of those commands though!

I wonder how much of the productivity gains of using GenAI are simply slightly offsetting the productivity loses that come from everyone else using it.

FYI - For Your Information.

I regularly answer to a #toot with just a bunch of #hashtags related to the content or media of the said #post.

It's not only a matter of search engine optimization (#SEO), but also a stake of #findability for this #content.

If search engines (#DuckDuckGo, #Kagi, #SearxNG...) may index your #Mastodon account, according to you settings,
the software itself does not index a toot unless it has a #hashTag.

#duckduckgo just gave me an AI-generated answer (that I repeatedly tell them I never want to see) to my search for my bank's wire routing number. Had I taken it at face value I'd have been out a lot of cash--because it was completely wrong and without reference. #aisucks

I stopped using Google services a while ago.

I’ve written in the past about my #GoodbyeGoogle story. All part of me trying to leaving Big Tech behind.

I’m getting there.

I have a domain through which I run my own instance of Nextcloud, to replace Google Drive.

The other domain I set up to use for email and other services (albeit it’s via Apple).

In fact, apart from YouTube, my Google account is unused for anything else.

So, why have I received an email from Google advising me to verify my own domain as my recovery email?
How is Google even aware of this?

Rhetorical question, I suppose!

Here is my current tech stack:

* Storage - #Nextcloud
* Photos - Apple Photos
* Email - My own domain (currently via Apple Mail)
* Maps - Apple Maps
* Browser - #Vivaldi (MacBook) #quichebrowser (iPhone and iPad)
* Search - #DuckDuckGo
* Social Media - #GoToSocial

#fediverse #selfhost

The #Enshitification of the #internet by #Google continues.

I went to look up a nearby take away option for dinner that I have looked up many times before. The website for the take away is no longer on the first page of the Google search.

It is all part of Google’s attempts to bury the information you want so you have to spend longer on their site seeing their adds.

I am now using #DuckDuckGo for my internet searches - same search criteria and the take away website came up first.

Found an Italian adjective "pollente" I wasn't familiar with. Collins Dictionary didn't have it, DDG thought I meant polenta, and Google translate thought it was Norwegian for "pollen tree"; when I forced GT to use Italian, it gave "chicken".

Only Kagi translate recognized it as a rare literary term meaning "powerful".