I’m finding the results are not helpful as they used to be and sometimes way past the topic I’m searching. This is very prevalent when I’m searching for pirate sites. I’m falling back to Searxng whenever this occurs.

Has anyone noticed it too? Has DDG upped their moderation?

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it’s OK to me btw, no problem at all. duckassist is nice also idk what are u sayin

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I’m seeing way more ads at the top(at the top 5 of the search) related to the keyword I’m typing. For eg, if I am searching for a movie pirate website I would get ad results at the top which are paid like Netflix, Amazon Prime etc and no results related to the pirate site I’m searching. This is not how it used to be. I used to find those sites at the top 3 resuls. It was convenient.

Yes duck assist is great and I like Duck ai as well.

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just change search results to be located in Greece and you won’t have any ads

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Here we can see the typical delusional lemmy user

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What a trash take. Piracy has existed forever, why’re you acting like you’re mature and know better than OP? Nothing immoral about piracy is this age. People can’t pirate what they want to watch? It has to be some extremely grassroots local film only?

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Fuck copyright

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I’m conflicted on which Simpsons meme to post. Either the “Old man yells at cloud”, or the “No, it’s the children who are wrong”

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I’m gonna download more copyrighted media today just because you told me not to.

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Yep, use to recommend it but it’s just got generic even when filters are set to off, also the ai shit is annoying tho I respect them for not shoving it down my throat. I guess I’ll just wait for ladybug search engine to drop. PS: if anyone’s looking to compile I’ll save you the trouble cause for now it’s only a webview in an app. You could go to DDG or google to search but it’s not a nice experience

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Ladybird looks cool. It’s the first ever newsletter I have ever knowingly signed up for.

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Too bad it’s expected for 2026

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duck duck go is showes Bing results. maybe Microsoft is doing somthing.

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I only use searx for this reason. Also, whyre you searching for pirate sites? You should have a handful that you use and seed for.

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Honestly I’m a little worried when the new administration comes in. When the MPAA walks in with a bucket full of money and they decide to Go after torrenting again I don’t really want them to see my complete history and my credit balances. When they catch me on TPB they’re going to only catch me with whatever I’ve got my hand on in the cookie jar.

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Are you not using a VPN? Also were you using TPB as your main tracker? Try TL for a step up and a private one too.

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Hell yes on the VPN. I have jacket connecting to a half dozen public services. I have a private one but I tend to only source the things there that I can’t find elsewhere.

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