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DuckDuckGo
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Last discussed Nov 12, 2026
A privacy-focused search engine that doesn't track users or store personal information
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Google is Holding Schools Hostage. (This is Not Okay)
Cal Newport · Nov 12, 2026
You’re Being Recorded More Than You Think
Jack Raines · Oct 7, 2026
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Used for: Replacing Google Search on school Chromebooks to avoid AI overviews (noai.duckduckgo.com set as the default search engine)
Praised: Privacy-focused with no data profiling, offers a no-AI version with no summar...
vs: Alternative to Google Search; maybe not as good as hyper-tuned Google search ...
"This is what I think schools should do right away. The right away what you do is switch over to DuckDuckGo. It is a search engine that is meant with privacy in mind. It does not collect data from your searches to try to build a data profile of you..."
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Jack Raines
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vs: Compared to Chrome
"I also think that if more people really cared about their data privacy, DuckDuckGo would have more than 100 users and Chrome wouldn't have billions of users."
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