Now that Google , FB wants to trap us and control every aspect of the Internet browsing, Is it even possible to break free.

Or creating new Internet is a unrealistic idea ?

  • lustrum
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    1 year ago

    I’ve started using Duckduckgo, less specifically for the search and more for the bangs. Fed up of search surfacing sites they care about. I can now quickly search wikipedia with !w etc.

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      1 year ago

      I host my own searx instance and use that to search, it supports all of DDG’s bangs by default if you begin a query with a double bang !!

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        1 year ago

        DDG’s bangs actually use the site’s own search feature though, rather than narrowing the search engine’s results to a given site.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah but that’s slower and not using the sites specific search