I don’t know DuckDuckGo, but what’s the purpose of trying to compete with it? This is not a rhetorical question. Is there something wrong with DuckDuckGo, something you feel you can do better, or are you just making a competitor for the principle?

Sorry, you don’t appreciate getting the highlight reel of everyone else’s life to make yourself feel inferior?

I do think that sounds more like they’re hiding it and blaming adblock than pretending something was missed. Wouldn’t be surprised if it starts small and ramps up over time, but that’s just speculation.

Yes. You could probably also write a simple script that scrubs the Googles out.

I was skeptical about this, but yeah, I tested it, and can confirm.

Google has a thing called Apps Script that lets you write code to run on documents. You could write one that creates an HTML file from your doc without including Google’s redirects.

It’s probably easy enough to write a script that will go through the generated HTML and just scrub out the Google.

I have a Google Doc that’s a statblock for an RPG. It has a link to the mage armor spell, which goes directly to https://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/m/mage-armor/.

I just downloaded that statblock as an html. Then I opened that html file. The statblock is there and it all looks pretty much the same.

But then I hover over the mage armor link and it instead goes to https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/m/mage-armor/&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1696552528610887&usg=AOvVaw1Wgq9wmajthwTbYmk1EmHx.

This page immediately redirects to the proper destination in a fraction of a second. Blink and you’ll miss it. However, it does allow Google to track that I clicked the link, and probably associate it back to me and/or the original document.

Yeah, but it was only one person. No big deal.

No need. If you skim the article, you’ll see it only works on sharp edges. The letters being read here are metal cutouts.

I’m also of that mindset. I moved to Lemmy to support the protests, not because of privacy.