The project announced today the introduction of a new feature called “Sync & Backup,” which allows users to import bookmarks, passwords, and personal settings from other browsers to DuckDuckGo. Moreover, it enables users to move that data from one device to another or restore it on a new device in case they lose their original device.
DuckDuckGo’s announcement declares that the new feature can do the following:
Privately sync and access the bookmarks and passwords saved in your DuckDuckGo browsers – including any you’ve imported from other browsers – across multiple devices.
Back up passwords, bookmarks, and favorites in case your device is lost or damaged.
Migrate your bookmarks and passwords to a new device.
Sync your Email Protection account between devices.
How about actually improving the search results? It’s my default search, which means most of the time I have to do a search twice.
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Sure. With google I get more that I search for. It might be bad but it works for me. Ddg does not work for me in the same way. I use just to support is them as an alternative to Google.
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Ok that’s fine but google’s searches are shit nowadays too.
For me they work just fine.
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How would you know what works for me? Dude, is everything ok - is google holding your kids hostage?
I’ve been using duckduckgo for years. It used to be great. Nowadays whenever I use it I have to redo the search with !g or !b again to see the same garbage results and maybe between the three of them I find what I was looking for.
Now I’m using searx with 3 4 enignes selected to at least get their results in the same page. It’s slower than I like it to be but overall it’s faster than redoing the search in multiple engines.
Agree. I find solace in SearXNG – https://baresearch.org
But these past few years the search algorithms have changed to be anticonsumer and now users are using social sites to get information fast.
In effect the Internet has taken the place of Cable News and been ruined and dumbed down.
Well they don’t know literally everything said you so of course it’s a bit off.
I’ve just started to search a bit more specific. Works well
Both DDG and Google search is so bad these days that I actually started using Bing. At least with Bing, you can ask the AI to find that specific thing for you. Works almost as well as simply adding site:reddit.com to all of your DDG searches, sometimes better even.
If you search a lot, you should really look into Kagi Search, “a highly accurate, lightning-fast, user-centric, 100% privacy-respecting search engine with results augmented by non-commercial indexes and personalized searches.” Much better than the ad-supported ones, or even DDG, in my experience.
Nah, it’s definitely not important enough for me to pay for it.
Kagi may not sound good on its own, but what if I told you that they also turn around and give your money to a roundly disliked bigot, and cannot be dissuaded from doing this?
The problem is that you are required to give them your payment information and you need an account. That doesn’t sound privacy respecting to me.
Why does Kagi Search require an account? Kagi Search requires an account only because it is a paid service which requires an account for the transaction. Note that Kagi does not collect any personal information for billing and that you can even use an anonymous payment card such as Privacy if you want to.
I’m not terribly thrilled with it, but a lot of VPNs do as well. Plus, this is their business model. If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product. If they’re caught double dipping (taking our money and lying about logging to sell), they’ll be out of business shortly.
They do claim to log practically nothing. https://kagi.com/privacy
Yeah, there are definitely better alternatives. If they allowed you to pay in cash and there website was free of non-free JavaScript I would be at least willing to try it.
Is it just me or am i the only one who simply just backs up the bookmark files? There are like 2 files. The html list and the actual bookmark file. Takes like 5 seconds to do it.
Their search engine sucks. Period.
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I don’t think you’re an idiot if you use Bitwarden… but I wouldn’t use the vast majority of remote services.
I use it for shit I don’t care about which is most of my online presence. Like shopping sites and stuff, if someone managed to get into my passwords and order clothes for themselves I’d just get the money back from the bank.
There isn’t really all that much that can be done to me with a list of sites I’ve shopped in over the years, I don’t even have social media so they couldn’t even impersonate me not that that would matter all that much either.
What happens if your house burns down and you lose all your passwords?
