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 @Urban_Hermit @cavyherd @edsuom @samir Is Dailymotion or Vimeo a good YouTube alternative? We use both for work and they suit us well.  @jackyan @Urban_Hermit @edsuom @samir @Mojeek Both Dailymotion or Vimeo seem viable. I've never dealt with them from the content creator side, but a lot of creators I know & respect tend to use Vime. Wait—DDG is Bing? I.e., Microsoft? I...thought they were some entirely independent outfit? Oh, I see. It "partners" with Bing. 🤔. AIUI, it's chief virtue is lack of user tracking? @cavyherd @Urban_Hermit @edsuom @samir @Mojeek Sorry, I need to clarify: DDG (and Yahoo, Ecosia, Qwant, Neeva and others) license their results from Bing. The results are the same, which sadly means they are terrible! (The index gets smaller and smaller based on my research, so if you need something specific, it could be tricky.) @cavyherd @Urban_Hermit @edsuom @samir You can supplement your searches with @Mojeek, and you can have DDG at the bottom of each page of Mojeek hasnʼt given you the right result. With a relatively small user base, Mojeekʼs ordering isnʼt the best, but it will improve if more of us use it. @Urban_Hermit @cavyherd @edsuom @samir You could try to upload a Grammarly ad to PeerTube or Vimeo and just keep it playing on a loop to recreate the YouTube experience.  @LaNaehForaday @Urban_Hermit  I edited the post for you so your brain doesnt get hung up on a stupid and OBVIOUS typo... ... ... |
@cavyherd @edsuom @samir Yeah, I have used DuckDuckGo as my default search engine in Firefox for more than 10 years, I get the results I have asked for, and their image search is a fast way to locate relevant results too. Google is the Walmart of search, you get only what everybody else wants, with a strong biased towards corporate products. If I could only find a good alternative to YouTube, which is now a morass of popups and subscription asks.