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DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being ‘force-fed’ Google’s AI Search (techcrunch.com)
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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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[–] stormio@lemmy.ca 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Last week, after Google announced its huge overhaul to Search, I overheard a woman on the phone saying she was switching to DuckDuckGo because you can “opt out of using AI.”

“Google just isn’t Google anymore,” she said. It seems that others had the same idea.

I can't imagine randomly hearing something like this in the wild. (It's not clear from the article if the author attended Google I/O in person and overheard the conversation there.)

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I can.

"Google" is a taken-for-granted utility to most people. It's a verb. It's kinda like saying "rain isn't rain anymore," as it's just always been a part their lives, until it changed out of the blue, enough to break their routine.