And since you won’t be able to modify web pages, it will also mean the end of customization, either for looks (ie. DarkReader, Stylus), conveniance (ie. Tampermonkey) or accessibility.

The community feedback is… interesting to say the least.

  • fearout
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    231 year ago

    That’s a good write up, thanks. I don’t claim it’s coordinated, just that it feels more and more that way.

    Also, I switched to DDG a year or so ago and I haven’t heard that it was a wrapper for Bing. So I went to google it (I can’t not use this verb when talking about online searches, lol), and it seems like it’s not really the case. It gets some results from bing and utilises their ads to make profit, but it seems like it’s a small part of their output. Is that incorrect? Do you have some more info about it being a wrapper? I’m kinda curious now

    • The Cuuuuube
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      61 year ago

      I’d be happy to hear that’s true. They were originally an aggregator until Google changed their api