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it's free... but somehow they are paying for it.
Don't like it? Stop expecting services on the net to be free.
Ok, I'll bite. Is there a subscription service that will provide similar services without ads. If it had a better privacy policy that would be great too. If not, what search engine does anyone recommend when on mobile?
Startpage. DDG. There are probably others. Although they probably have (blocked) ads too.
Does DDG just using Bing as a back end?
No, DGG does its own crawling. Startpage uses something else as a backend I believe.
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TANSTAAFL (Score:4, Insightful)
it's free... but somehow they are paying for it.
Don't like it? Stop expecting services on the net to be free.
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Ok, I'll bite. Is there a subscription service that will provide similar services without ads. If it had a better privacy policy that would be great too. If not, what search engine does anyone recommend when on mobile?
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Startpage. DDG. There are probably others. Although they probably have (blocked) ads too.
Re:TANSTAAFL (Score:2)
Does DDG just using Bing as a back end?
Re: (Score:3)
No, DGG does its own crawling. Startpage uses something else as a backend I believe.
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