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Still use google for “150 usd to cad” conversions. Use it for translation. Use it for relevant news. Use it for accurate localized searches. Use it for finding relevant sourcing of companies. Calling DuckDuckGo a replacement of google is no where near right. Bing is more relevant. And people seem to hate on Bing. The only reason people love DuckDuckGo is because of the perceived privacy. But the NSA blows that right away.

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It’s also far slower to resolve queries and returning information. Doesn’t work without JavaScript. Needs !g for a lot of things. Wish it could be a google replacement but traffic or not. It ain’t.

> 150 usd to cad

Works in DDG :-)

Never seen it work on mobile. Just tested it on Pc and it does work.

Works (for me) on mobile and I used it frequently in last couple of months. Firefox for android with ddg set as default search engine.

> But the NSA blows that right away.

Can you elaborate on this?

The servers used to return your results most likely made with intel hardware (known backdoors or open holes). Sophisticated, even mind blowing levels of encryption breaking and penetration. If you think your data is encrypted online, or that it can’t be traced at every step. You’re wrong. There is no privacy on the internet. The best privacy we all have is the power button.

Then you walk outside and facial recognition takes over.

Privacy is dead.

I don't get this kind of reasoning.

Google isn't the NSA. Even if the NSA see everything, they still see it if you use Google instead of DuckDuckGo.

But Google don't see anything you do with DuckDuckGo. There are only upsides to using DuckDuckGo.

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