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I become more and more doubtfull about DuckDuck
They really think their target audience will like it?
Well, I mostly haven’t used the existing tools because I did not trust the service providers with my privacy, and also I do not think these are such an all important tools.
However this is a proxy, basically. Isn’t it?
So if we are fine using youtube through (video proxying instances of) Invidious and Piped, then this should be fine too (if you don’t input private info of yours or others, that is)
I’m happy to stick with Brave. Far superior to DDG in literally every way.
The irony of posting from infosec about how superior Brave is. Bruh moment.
I’m sorry that not everyone from my instance believes that Firefox is the only option 🙄
Dude, there is degoogled chromium, and various other blink engine choices, but touting brave as a “superior” option? Oof. Big oof.
On the gecko side of things, there are a ton of great choices as well. All of them are better in every single way than brave.
Because it objectively IS. It passes privacy tests in so many areas where others fail and I’m not just talking about those privacy test sites, I’m talking tests we can run ourselves. It’s fine if you don’t like Brave but don’t let your emotions get in the way of the fact that it is, by default, the best option for privacy out of the box. Sure, you CAN harden Firefox or use Librewolf but even those don’t always succeed in passing those tests like Brave does.
Bro. Be better.
“Objectively”
“Superior”
Your use of these words make me think that you don’t understand what they mean. Go ahead, use brave all you want. Big oof.
It IS. It’s a fact. You can run the tests yourself.
Smh.
What has brave to do with this?
They have a search engine…
As I understand the point was the AI tool of the org, not the search engine.
The AI is intrinsically linked to the search engine if I’m not mistaken. Brave has AI built into their search engine and their browser, but it’s very well done and pro-privacy.
Why would I use brave (with its weird fucked up crypto links) over Vivaldi? If you’re using chromium anyway, I don’t get the brave love.
Better privacy, better UI not cluttered by excessive and unnecessary options, and a fantastic feature set… but I’m referring to their search engine in this context.
I would use Firefox over either, but at least Vivaldi’s ownership model seems pretty good (employee owned). Brave is just so untrustworthy at a company level.
Been saying this for years, the day Firefox gets native gestures, is the day I’ll swap.
Can’t live without them (and speeddial tbh)
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Isn’t brave owned by that weird crypto guy? And based on chrome?
Yeah, and? It’s one of the best options for privacy. I’m referring to their search engine though.
Um, how about no? Love DDG but good lord are we just supposed to take openai’s word for this privacy? Lol
Yes, it’s a stretch, but think about it. If they is a proxy, then it isn’t worse than using piped or invidious too search and listen for music or such.
Better alternatives are always welcomed, even if they’re not universally needed or perfect. I already use their search engine quite regularly so I can imagine I will try this occasionally, though I think trust issues with AI chat will always be difficult to overcome for me since I’ve spent the majority of my life doing this stuff for myself.
It’s funny how fads have moved on from fashion and toys and onto the internet
No thanks
What is the link? It doesn’t appear on main ddg page for me
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nothing&t=fpas&ia=chat#
Thank you! I’ve used anonchatgpt before but this is better, no captcha and two models to choose from
Its strange that you need to search something first to access it. And the Claude model is really outdated. The new claude model is better than ChatGPT4 but the old one isnt.
Damn they have ClaudeAI! Its way better than GPT
Unfortunately, they are using the old Claude 1.2 instant model instead of the newer Claude 3 Haiku
I also couldnt find their website at all, how do you access that chat?
Edit: tab on the search results page
Ok I guess
I’ll just use Jan locally on my machine and Microsoft Copilot for images.
Which models do you run on jan? I often get very weird responses and/or never ending feedback loops.
That being said I still don’t have much use for text-based ai, it doesn’t really fill any gaps in my workflow
Stealth 7B mostly
FYI: You don’t have to choose OpenAI. You can also choose Claude 2.1. Its corpus is more ethically sourced & it’s more private with user data, but in return it is naturally less feature-complete. Still pretty awesome though!
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Turbo misinformation
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This. I guess you can save the permanent prompt to “output an error if the certainty of a result is below 50%” or something
I use that prompt to remove annoying talking, give me a single command and not “open nano here, copy this”.
That’s super wrong. Typical ai hallucination since it’s not in training data (Claude is quite new).
ChatGPT is incorrect. I asked Claude about it and this is what it has to say.
(Skip to bottom for tl;dr.)
tl;dr
Claude’s end response:
That thing needs to summerize it’s own shit.
I fucking AGREE.
Beware that it just forwards your queries to openai
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