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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being ‘force-fed’ Google’s AI Search

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DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being ‘force-fed’ Google’s AI Search

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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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Google overhauled Search at I/O 2026, replacing blue links with AI agents. The backlash has been swift. DuckDuckGo app installs spiked 30% as users seek a way out.

EDIIT :

Apparently, there is an issue with the warning request to disable the ad blocker

I use Fennec F-Droid and Cromite, and I don’t see this issue.

to get around the adblocker warning, use this link.

https://unwall.app/techcrunch.com/2026/05/26/duckduckgo-installs-are-up-30-as-users-reject-being-force-fed-googles-ai-search/

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    More people will probably switch when they figure out they don’t need to install anything and can change their default search engine on their current browser.

    FTFY

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      Thank you for this! I changed to duckduckgo just now and it took 5 seconds. Now to see if it works as well as Google.

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        The bangs are the addictive feature for me. You start by typing !w lemmy in the URL bar, with DDG already configured as the default search engine, and DDG will directly serve the search result for this term from Wikipedia. There are hundreds of them like !yt for YouTube or !gm for Google Maps, and the acronyms are intuitive. https://duckduckgo.com/bangs

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          This should be a YSK post

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        It doesn’t and when you discover that, try Kagi.

        People here love things to be free and in doing so, they recommend worse search engines.

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          I like free but will check it out when I have some money, thanks

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