DDG != Bing. First, DDG gets some of its search results elsewhere. Second, DDG's raison d'etre is privacy. Using it doesn't rat you out to Microsoft, even though using Bing directly does.

Thanks! I didn't know that was a thing. I exclude domains quite frequently but didn't know I could do it with video as well. And axing AI is a bonus.

I don't use Google that much anymore, but when I do those video results and AI crap that come first can be really annoying.

I've taken to putting every search term between double quotes, and it works wonders when it comes to bypassing the "here's the most recent / most popular stuff that roughly meets your criteria" results.

It's a PITA and I get tired of it - that's when I use Google. But I try hard to make DDG work because I don't want to give Google any more traffic than I have to. And I find I can make DDG give me what I need most of the time.

Sometimes the "all-double-quotes" trick narrows the scope too much and I have to fuck around to get it right. Google-fu and DDG-fu can be quite different skills.

Seconded. It's a fairly frequent occurrence for me. In one extreme instance within the last two weeks I was searching for some very recent news item - I forget now what it was. DDG had ZERO results, and Google had a bunch. That said, I've found a few occasions where DDG gave better results on the same search terms.

DDG also requires putting EVERY search term in double quotes in order to reliably provide usable results, whereas Google doesn't.

That said, I almost always use DDG first, because it seems to honour privacy more, because variety-equals-redundancy-equals-resilience, and because fuck Google.

Way to PROVE that your sig - "Violence is like duct tape. If it doesn't solve the problem, you didn't use enough" - is not at all ironic and is in fact the serious belief of a Fascist MAGAtard.

Didn't you mean "eyeliner editors"?

Sound familiar?

Best get used to it. There'll be much more of this crap - and much worse varieties of it - now that the US is a full-on Fascist state increasingly ruled by robber barons.

Sure, if you've had the thing for ten years then replacing it isn't entirely unreasonable. OTOH, purposely withdrawing functionality you've already paid for is a criminal act and should be treated as such.

Buying products like this is stupid, and people burned in this way mostly deserve what they get.

How about pleasing us by not making shit up and then telling us it's factual!

In this instance the only way to see my 'shocked face' is to imagine it, because I'm not even surprised, never mind shocked. In fact, the phrase "I told ya so" comes to mind.

You beat me to it - I have that same quote in my clipboard just ready to paste into a comment.

My take was to point out the blindness, narcissism, and sheer fucking arrogance of the belief that everyone aspires to be a manager. Not to mention the implication that anyone who's not some kind of manager is socially and/or intellectually inferior.

Am I reading too much into that "exciting to experience management" line? Maybe, but I doubt it.