<story><title>DuckDuckGo moves beyond search to also protect you while browsing</title><url>https://spreadprivacy.com/privacy-simplified/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>floren</author><text>My biggest search wish is an option to eliminate any results from online shopping sites. Hell, I want a &amp;quot;give me the old web&amp;quot; toggle that eliminates shopping sites, social media, and any corporate websites so I can just find the hand-written HTML from the weirdos who&amp;#x27;ll tell me how to change the clutch on a 1969 MG Midget.</text></item><item><author>prepend</author><text>Google started this really annoying habit of including results that don’t have the words you are searching. You can get around this by including the word in quotes but it’s frustrating to spend a few minutes looking items returned by Google to not find what you’re looking for to realize they showed it to you even though it didn’t have your search terms.&lt;p&gt;I bet this is great for current events like “when is Star Wars 1 playing” when the person probably meant Star Wars 8. But sucks when researching items or searching for a paper or particular product.&lt;p&gt;I started using Duck Duck Go and it works great. The privacy is an added bonus.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eevilspock</author><text>All search interfaces should support &amp;quot;Don&amp;#x27;t show me this again&amp;quot;. All of them.&lt;p&gt;Imagine having a roommate who doesn&amp;#x27;t remember you want to avoid sugar and are allergic to nuts, yet keeps making PBJ sandwiches when it&amp;#x27;s his turn to make dinner. That and you&amp;#x27;re getting effin PBJ for dinner.&lt;p&gt;Web search: Don&amp;#x27;t show me anything from this domain again.&lt;p&gt;Google: You are so keen to remember things about me that I don&amp;#x27;t want you to remember. But you don&amp;#x27;t bother to remember what I reject? Of course, because I am the product, not the customer. This feature might run afoul of your relationship with advertisers, yeah?&lt;p&gt;Yelp search: You&amp;#x27;ve suggested this place before, I spent the time to read the details and reviews and rejected it, but you keep showing it to me on future searches, and because as a human I can&amp;#x27;t remember all the stuff you&amp;#x27;ve showed me before, I waste time considering it all over again. You even show me places I rated 1 star. STOP!&lt;p&gt;Maybe DuckDuckGo could add this feature? Please? Pretty Please?</text></comment>
<story><title>DuckDuckGo moves beyond search to also protect you while browsing</title><url>https://spreadprivacy.com/privacy-simplified/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>floren</author><text>My biggest search wish is an option to eliminate any results from online shopping sites. Hell, I want a &amp;quot;give me the old web&amp;quot; toggle that eliminates shopping sites, social media, and any corporate websites so I can just find the hand-written HTML from the weirdos who&amp;#x27;ll tell me how to change the clutch on a 1969 MG Midget.</text></item><item><author>prepend</author><text>Google started this really annoying habit of including results that don’t have the words you are searching. You can get around this by including the word in quotes but it’s frustrating to spend a few minutes looking items returned by Google to not find what you’re looking for to realize they showed it to you even though it didn’t have your search terms.&lt;p&gt;I bet this is great for current events like “when is Star Wars 1 playing” when the person probably meant Star Wars 8. But sucks when researching items or searching for a paper or particular product.&lt;p&gt;I started using Duck Duck Go and it works great. The privacy is an added bonus.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hashmal</author><text>This is my frustration as well. Today&amp;#x27;s web (as seen through search engines) is just content marketing.&lt;p&gt;And to reach such a page, you have to go through ads on the results page, then a newsletter popup (sometimes two, these days), then ads all around the content (which is still marketing, remember).&lt;p&gt;This is nuts.</text></comment>