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Discussion on: New Machine; New Browser

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Ste Griffiths

Firefox is fantastic, I love it, it's been my main browser for 8 years of coding. Good choice!

Extra LIBERTY tip, set DDG as your default search and then you can always use bangs (duckduckgo.com/bang) from the search bar. Much more powerful than picking between different search engines!

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Dan Silcox

Duck duck go is great! Search has really improved since the ‘old days’ and privacy for the win! Their browser is good too - Brave.

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Fıratcan Sucu

Brave is not DDG's product. They are separate companies.

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Dan Silcox

Ah ok for some reason i had it in my head they were linked!

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Dan Silcox

Anyway, both great products with a similar privacy-first focus

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maxdevjs

Happened a couple times to search for a cryptic error message on DDG and found two or three results maximum, and trying with some other search engine found several (a lot) more (not sure how many effectively pertinent). Any clue about this behaviour?

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Utkarsh Talwar

Dunno about that but if you're not aware of this little trick, you can always search through DDG with "g!" tacked at the end of your search query. Will take you to Google search without the tracking (unless you're signed in of course).

There are other shortcuts like this as well for Wikipedia and such.