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Madds Mish 🏳️‍⚧️

@mhoye I'd like to add that if you use DuckDuckGo as your default Firefox search provider you can extremely quickly search other search engines from the Quantumbar/omnibar/omnibox using bang commands. I use this feature constantly to search directly on sites like YouTube (!yt), AlternativeTo (!alt), and Amazon (!a). Other search engines may also have this feature.

duckduckgo.com/bangs

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Charles J Gervasi ⚡🛡️🥥

@mish @mhoye I find #Duckduckgo bangs so useful. If I want to search the electronics distributor #Digikey, I just add !digikey. There are many bangs.

HistoPol (#HP)

@mish

So, basically, that is the "site:" command from Google?

@mhoye

Madds Mish 🏳️‍⚧️

@HistoPol @mhoye no. It doesn't limit the search to a location. It runs the search on the bang service.

HistoPol (#HP)

@mish

Thanks.
Apart from less characters, what fir, why not just DDG?

@mhoye

Madds Mish 🏳️‍⚧️

@HistoPol @mhoye I just find it convenient and wanted to share. Ctrl+L to get to the quantumbar and bang commands I've memorized for sites I use often.

HistoPol (#HP)

@mish

Kind of you.
It does sound convenient. However, you seem to be trading off anonymity for convenience if I understand the disclaimer correctly.

@mhoye

Madds Mish 🏳️‍⚧️

@HistoPol @mhoye yes most certainly it doesn't maintain DuckDuckGos anonymity.

HistoPol (#HP)

@mish

Thanks anyway, not for me then, alas, too bad.

@mhoye

ಚಿರಾಗ್ 🌹✊🏾Ⓥ🌱🇵🇸 (he/him)

@HistoPol @mish @mhoye I mostly use it when I know which site I'm going to anyway (so there is no practical loss of privacy). I also automatically delete cookies, use uBO on strict mode, still use uMatrix, enabled RFP, and do all of this through a VPN anyway. Not saying it's foolproof, but loads better than doing nothing at all.

aquascum

@mish @mhoye
!w - wikipedia
!u - urban dictionary...

full list here: duckduckgo.com/bangs

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