Post 9vG9LrFOeQexCWDkcy by connor@toot.cafe
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(DIR) Post #9vG6TIISBHuVG1VMqu by amolith@social.nixnet.services
2020-05-21T03:30:06Z
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I saw a billboard ad for #DuckDuckGo in my almost-middle-of-nowhere-town and I don't know how I feel about it. On one hand, more people using a more private search engine is good. On the other, DuckDuckGo is doing billboard ads :blobfrown:
(DIR) Post #9vG9LrFOeQexCWDkcy by connor@toot.cafe
2020-05-21T04:02:22Z
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@amolith DuckDuckGo's whole business model is having non-intrusive ads so I think they still make a profit, but not with your data.And if you don't trust them anyway, there is a FOSS selfhosted search engine called searX.
(DIR) Post #9vG9VlDVvVyvOU3uwC by amolith@social.nixnet.services
2020-05-21T04:04:11Z
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@connor I honestly forgot they even did ads at all lol. uBlockOrigin and uMatrix make my browsing experience quite nice.https://searx.nixnet.services 😉
(DIR) Post #9vGHnGKOJFTGRH8SEy by brian@ap.tiuxo.com
2020-05-21T05:37:01.264207Z
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@amolith What's wrong with billboard ads?
(DIR) Post #9vGPtrtEMpf0J25mHA by bn4t@social.cyberpunks.xyz
2020-05-21T07:07:46Z
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@amolithI think it's kind of part of their image to do billboards. They actually did billboards from the very beginning.
(DIR) Post #9vGf1KviIIJdiBGy8m by tagomago@mastodon.social
2020-05-21T09:57:13Z
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@amolith Also radio ads: https://pla.social/objects/2cc3f16b-8b00-4aa0-8011-dd2f79d4a4a3
(DIR) Post #9vHTdpw8SHqMad1PkG by syster@social.linux.pizza
2020-05-21T19:24:26Z
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@amolith have you ever looked into. I like its principle very much. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YaCy#yacy?
(DIR) Post #9vHTfo1gWslzFAYZKi by syster@social.linux.pizza
2020-05-21T19:24:49Z
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@amolith have you ever looked into #yacy? I like its principle very much. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YaCy
(DIR) Post #9vHcFs3Npf1XnD3irY by amolith@social.nixnet.services
2020-05-21T21:00:57Z
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@syster I have and I had an instance for a little while but I had never encountered such a heavy piece of software and had to stop. I do plan to set it up in the future once I have some more funding though
(DIR) Post #9vHcIvJu8zXWnBF5M0 by amolith@social.nixnet.services
2020-05-21T21:01:32Z
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@syster I have and I had an instance for a little while but I've never encountered such a heavy piece of software and didn't have the resources I really needed to make hosting it worthwhile. I do plan to set it up in the future once I have some more funding though
(DIR) Post #9vLWDTepk6WwSStJqK by amolith@social.nixnet.services
2020-05-23T18:12:09Z
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@bn4t Hm I didn't realise that 🤔 It was just very odd to see lol
(DIR) Post #9vLXQvjWljs3Fh47d2 by amolith@social.nixnet.services
2020-05-23T18:25:47Z
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@brian Nothing in particular, it just wasn't something I really expected from DuckDuckGo. I hadn't realised that actually did billboard advertising at the very beginning though
(DIR) Post #9vRhu0mDGIfRmWaRlI by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2020-05-26T17:50:50Z
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@amolith Also, what’s their exit going to be?
(DIR) Post #9vRjW7k1uo0oLCIqbg by jalcine@playvicious.social
2020-05-26T18:09:15Z
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@amolith They have to get reach somehow