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by yegg 24 days ago
Just FYI, at DuckDuckGo we have a search setting to turn ads off: https://duckduckgo.com/settings

We also have a no ai version: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

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I hadn’t looked at the settings page in ages. Some interesting stuff in there. You can even block certain websites now (goodbye, Pinterest). It’s time I give DuckDuckGo another go.

As I fiddle with the options, I was about to suggest there should be a private way to share settings to another device so I don’t have to redo everything on my phone, then I looked at the right side of the page and saw you already provide that!

Overall great work, major thumbs up. Looking forward to trying some searches with you again.

I do think I may have found a bug. Blocked sites aren’t being set across devices, neither by using the cloud save nor the bookmarklet.

Thanks, and thanks for the report. Will investigate.
I've been happily using DuckDuckGo on my devices for many years.

The only gripe I have is that the default maps are painful to use. On my system (Linux + Firefox), for some reason, half the time they fail to load, and need a refresh to be displayed.

Also, would it be possible to add the option to specify a region for the "Shopping" tab, in the same way it can be done for search & images?

Thanks. On the maps, is this through a VPN?
I switched to your service something like twelve or thirteen years ago now. I spent the first year or so adding `!g` to everything, but it's been a long time since I've felt the need to bother with that. Thanks for doing what you do.
Thanks!