DDG is just a Google fish bowl. Same data set, similar results.

If you're concerned about privacy, there are much better options available.

Sellam

On Fri, Feb 10, 2023, 3:40 AM Adrian Godwin via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:

> I normally use DuckDuckGo as it's the default in Brave, the degoogled
> version of Chrome that I use. It generally does what I want, but whereas
> google will usually give me local (UK) results first for suppliers,
> Duckduckgo will give worldwide results (which mostly means USA). You could
> see Google's result as either more helpful or annoyingly tainted, but at
> least it shows an instance where they're not explicitly evil. Adding 'uk'
> into the search term is usually enough to prioritise local results in DDG.
>
> I sometimes use google when I don't get a useful result : as well as the
> localisation it also seems to find either different or more results. I
> couldn't say whether it's got worse at that but I filter the results for
> obvious ads fairly automatically.
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 3:49 AM Rick Murphy via cctalk <
> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> > On 2/9/2023 5:40 PM, Doug Jackson via cctalk wrote:
> > > At this point I will chime in.
> > >
> > > ....
> > >
> > > They clearly went to the trouble of trawling through USPS tracking
> > details
> > > to find something that was shipped from near their suburb to Sydney
> > > Australia by somebody else and submitted it as their evidence they had
> > > shipped.
> >
> > This is called a "brushing" attack.
> >
> > They sell you a high value item, then send some crappy nearly free item
> > to some other address in the vicinity, and use that to "prove" to PayPal
> > that you got it.
> >
> > The recipient has no idea WTF the item is so they discard it. Apparently
> > the folks here don't understand just how far apart Australian cities can
> > be.  Worked in your favor.
> >
> > > I went ballistic with paypal, and got a refund.
> >
> > It's good to hear that PP did that.
> >      -Rick
> >
> >
>

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