Enjoy Duck Duck Go? Time to find an alternative.
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So I just discovered that Ixquick is now Startpage which to my cursory research at the moment is the same company. I'm not really thrilled by this discovery given that I have zero faith in pretty much everything. I'm tempted to switch to Yandex. However I have not yet figured out how to edit in via the "about:config" section of Firefox (which is another issue in itself..).
So it looks like I'm going to have to do research on manually editing in a working default to Yandex. ... I'm already looking at the about:config section and it looks a lot more spartan than I remember it which I suspect means that a lot of functionality is being concealed.
Getting rather unhappy ATM...
Yandex is great in terms of search quality and would be my primary search engine if it wasn't for the constant captchas.
That may or may not be due to VPN usage, but I'm not turning it off. I'll try a combination of StartPage and Yandex until I find something better to replace the former.
Yandex has been getting hit with a particular sort of industrial-scale DDoS recently. A botnet of routers (some of them proper routers, not SOHO) spamming with false search requests.
Two steps:
While on yandex homepage, right-click in address bar and click "Add Yandex".
Go into firefox Settings > Search, then select as default from dropdown.
Source: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-or-remove-search-engine-firefox
Thank you.
What's wrong with Ixquick/Startpage? Are you saying it's the same company as DuckDuckGo? There's nothing mentioning that on their website.
Isn't Yandex Russian-run? Sure they'll censor way less topics but at the same time that mildly bothers me.