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Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago

This.

Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Ah yeh, I tried StartPage for a while. IIRC the image results page wasn’t so great. Not many filter options and so on.

Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think Ecosia pulls results from Bing if that’s any better? I use them occasionally but generally prefer DDG.

Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

And I feel like that happened really quickly. It doesn’t feel like that long ago that Edge was a nice, nimble browser. Not this bloated naggy beast it is now.

Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Who’s monopoly are we talking about? If that’s the goal then Firefox + DuckDuckGo would be more sensible right?