No, just familiarity what you’re sold on.

Same tbh. Arcadey ones preferably!

A few steps away from becoming furries.

/satire

While realistic - if nobody tries differently without getting just the massive bag of ceo tax money, it’ll never ever change.

For ads, tracking and spying of course.

How dare you expose my mobile typing and/or my not-native language speaker! /s

Netherlands here and as well we have so many local shops that outbeat Amazon that it isn’t even fair. There is a very small chance I buy something of Amazon, think the only time I did was for a replacement item for a Dyson.

Interesting, thank you for the detail.

Outside of junk pre-installed, isn’t it also just a longer extended windows update? Meaning you’d eventually get the updates regardless?

Think this was sponsorblock due to above statement

The best and set up fully automatically.

Done more than the user just spreading hatred

I like this one, i tend to do this as well. Possibly discover something new and more geared or useful to you; or else an experience that tells you what doesn’t fit for you.

I’ve gotten really good with ddg searches to where I find much more than I did on Google bypassing the first big payers to Google to stay on top… Even if it’s not relevant to my search. I stuck around with ddg and now as I grown into other area’s of IT like Linux, I noticed there were a lot of great bangs that could get me towards the information I wanted.

Same goes for ddg as for Linux to develop new workflows to keep it fresh and make computing fun again.

DDG is awesome, been using it for years.

Thank you!

I am out of the loop, what’s going in with snooping?

I use their cloudflared tunnel sometimes for accessing home hosted stuff.

Huh? We in Netherlands have 5G

Yuuurh!

That’s what I said - the right key wording. It’s pretty strict, whereas Google’s results sometimes are a tiny bit more loose understanding of what you roughly mean. Though not always, and on Google I found myself often just adding “Reddit” for specifics. Though really really depends on what you search.

For me DDG offers a lot more than just search results, the bangs and features like I added a script to directly port my questions to some AI is really useful.

Personally really like ddg over it though. Only gotta be more precise with keywording for finding what you need.