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by msdrigg 1752 days ago
I use containers to only use some google services while signed in. For instance I use gmail signed in but I google search in a separate container to not log that data in my account.

I may be fooling myself and google can identify it anyway through my IP or something but it feels like I get a little extra anonymity.

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duckduckgo is a thing, just sayin
I use ddg primarily, but I regularly need to use g! to reroute myself to Google when searching for anything that I don’t already have domain-specific knowledge for.

Like if I want to just check syntax for a new programming language, ddg can handle the search just fine, but if I am doing initial research for a problem I don’t understand well, I need Google to get consistently relevant results.

But the search is not as good. Or good might be subjective in this case. But I tried using DDG mutliple times, but every time I end up just doing the same search on google becouse it is much better at giving me the result I want.

But this is just my personal experience.