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lechekaflan@lemmy.world to Fuck AI@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days ago

DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being ‘force-fed’ Google’s AI Search

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DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being ‘force-fed’ Google’s AI Search

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DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being ‘force-fed’ Google’s AI Search | TechCrunch
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Google overhauled Search at I/O 2026, replacing blue links with AI agents. The backlash has been swift. DuckDuckGo app installs spiked 30% as users seek a way out.

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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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    You guys still use google ? 😂

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      It was trash long before AI. Now it is just speed running towards turning to absolute junk.

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    What is a duckduckgo INSTALL?

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      It’s when duckduck stays

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      Mobile app

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      It has a “browser”.

      It’s a weird one that that relies on the OS default one.

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        I thought it was just a chromium thing with a big ol delete history button

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    Good, fuck Google and their agentic bullshit! I hate it so much, I stopped using the majority of Google services once I saw the directly they were going in. It’s pretty nasty. Glad that DuckDuckGo is giving people a way out of gassed up LLMs (despite drinking from the a similarly deranged well as Google).

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      Ddg drinks from the Microsoft well, not Google’s

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        DuckDuckGo has a similar ambition to make LLMs fetch, this is what I meant. Google is being dangerously extra about it, threatening the very existence of a web that we interact with in a sane manner (unless you use a different search engine).

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    Up 30 percent from one week to the next. The ai is in works for years but the article is celebrating one week to week comparison… Will there be a sad article next week when the numbers return to the mean?

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    Do they still allow Microsoft trackers?

    https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/duckduckgo-browser-allows-microsoft-trackers-due-to-search-agreement/

    Searxng is the only real search engine alternative i found, no business ties to big tech, gives you results from multiple (configurable) public search engines at once.

    Ddg always seemd like the most successful attempt to rebrand bing into something cool. Bing results can be useful but often meh.

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    Quickly remember. You can install waterfox (a Firefox fork with all the telemetry disable and no AI at all now or never) on any OS and also on android. Even on the android version you can install any ad block, you can also install an addon called Disable AI which automatically turn off the AI function from duck duck and other services.

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    Glad to see people making the switch. Who owns DDG? I’m hoping not big tech.

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    Ugh, but ddg gives me slop too

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      noai.duckduckgo.com

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        Wish it was opt in only, but I’ll change my home page to this, thanks

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