Comment on DuckDuckGo Can Now Block Ads on YouTube

Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• titter@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So far so good!

  I use the DDG on my mobile, Android, for my daily driver browser. It just works. I think they have some form of “AI” but it’s easily avoidable.

  Search is comparable to G@@&)3 but isn’t (as far as i know) tracking you.

  I can’t say much because I do not search for many things; however, I do get results and they are helpful and not advertisements.

  Hope this tracks and is helpful!

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  • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I don’t quite get the point on platforms on which less limited options (like FF + uBlock + any search engine you want set as standard) are available. Main selling point is convenience, I guess?

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    • Uruanna@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Diversity is fine because sometimes, a good thing changes quite suddenly for the worse. Firefox got a bit of heat when they implemented AI in the browser, even if it’s off by default, a lot of people decided that was too much of a bad sign and jumped to other browsers. Having options to satisfy your trust is good.

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    • stagen@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think the main selling point is awareness, at this point. Offer up the product to the public to show them what they’ve consented to with using Chrome / Edge / Firefox.

      They trout the privacy features, as they should - but a more advanced user can get better results with Firefox and an array of extensions.

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• morto@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Is it open source?

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  • hexagonwin@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    yeah, it’s on f-droid afaik. i believe it’s a simple webview wrapper and not really a full browser.

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    • morto@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s interesting. Looks like a nice one to recommend to non tech savvy people who wouldn’t b able to install ublock on their own

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      • hexagonwin@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        installing firefox from google.play (or fennec from f-droid or whatever fenix build) and adding ublock origin from addons menu should be pretty straightforward i believe

        honestly not sure if the ddg browser can be recommended, especially because webview is ancient and not updated on quite a few android phones

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      • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        IDK, just installing a browser plugin sounds to me a lot easier than completely switching browsers to a niche one…

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• nymnympseudonym@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  How long before we get the feature in LibreWolf?

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  • hexagonwin@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    you can just install ublock origin? or you’re looking for something builtin?

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    • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Not even a need to install it, as Librewolf has uBlock integrated in the standard installation already.

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  • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Librewolf has uBlock builtin already, which is probably superior to a solution based on system-wrapper-browsing (in the most cases built on restricted chrome engines) like the DuckDuckGo browser does.

    It’s actually the main reason I am using LibreWolf on my company laptop, as installation of external browser plugins is disabled there…

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