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Microsoft Bing is trying to spoof Google UI when people search Google.com (www.windowslatest.com)
submitted 1 week ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] FundMECFS@slrpnk.net 160 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Kind of fucked up but tbf Google does similarly shady stuff.

Please just use duckduckgo (or SearX).

[–] gregor@gregtech.eu 46 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I host my own SearXNG instance, which miiiight be a bit of a bad idea because the anonymity of the crowd disappears but hosting your own services is way too cool to ignore. It's at search.gregtech.eu in case anyone wants to use it.

[–] vinyl@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Pretty impressed, very accurate informationLargest manufacturer in the world.

[–] turkalino@lemmy.yachts 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Accurate indeed. Pee is stored in the balls, cum is stored in the prostate

[–] Brumefey@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You know your content is certainly used to train LLMs ?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Did they stutter? Everything they said is 100% accurate.

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 0 points 1 week ago

It pulls from Wikidata

[–] FundMECFS@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 week ago

Hahha GregSearX I love it!

I’ve used searX in the past and found it was decent but personally I am going to stick with duckduckgo because it just works better for my needs (especially since I’m on mobile).

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

What I don't like about SearXNG (aside of no favicons/icons I think) is that it doesn't show the content of what I am looking for in the browser desktop tabs, if I search for "Linux" in the tab it is only shown "SearXNG" instead of what I am searching for... That definitely kills my browsing habits... I hope I am being clear (can't post a screenshot right now), also unsure if it was the same with mobile browsers.

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can control that with a setting. In Settings - Privacy, turn on “Query in the page's title.”

My instance has a magnifying glass as the favicon.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

Thank you, totally missed this then 😄

[–] cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That is configurable. Settings > Privacy > Query in the page's title

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

Oh, so it was a privacy feature then? Neat!

[–] gregor@gregtech.eu 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can set up a favicon resolver on my instance. I'll do it today.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thank you, I didn't even know it was possible.

I am gonna try it later, happy spying /j

[–] gregor@gregtech.eu 2 points 1 week ago

There we go, I have the favicons set up. Sorry for the intermittent downtime, I was doing some configuration.

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It supports favicons now, it has to be enabled by the instance.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Thanks for the heads up, always a good thing being proved wrong when asking for features :p

[–] nef@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is nothing like GregTech! Where's the tedious microcrafting to enjoy before every search?

[–] Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

I asked them about that once and they created the instance without knowing about the modpack. xd

[–] moe93@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How did you change the logo? I tried to do that on my instance and failed miserably. Running it through docker.

[–] gregor@gregtech.eu 3 points 1 week ago

You gotta mount the image to the place where searxng accesses it, like this in docker compose:

volumes:
      - ./searxng:/etc/searxng:rw
      - type: bind
        source: ./images/searxng.png
        target: /usr/local/searxng/searx/static/themes/simple/img/searxng.png
[–] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So then you can track my searches?

[–] gregor@gregtech.eu 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I guess I could technically do that, but I really don't give a f what people search for on my searxng instance. Plus, Google and the likes have an incentive to use your searches for advertising and building a profile on you.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If people search for illegal content does that get you in trouble?

[–] gregor@gregtech.eu 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, none of that content is on my server, and the search engines searxng indexes probably so their best to remove illegal stuff.

I really hope I don't get in trouble for anything, but I doubt I will. I have a grand Total of like 5 users.

[–] MuAraeOracle@real.lemmy.fan 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You are in for a surprise, tomorrow you will have 7 users, you just got Lemmyed!

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

Lemmy hug of... life?

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

DDG is just Bing under the hood

[–] FundMECFS@slrpnk.net 58 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And Searx is the same. And startpage is just google.

But the point is they don’t track.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

DDG was letting Bing track users. They may have stopped now that they got in trouble for it.

[–] FundMECFS@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Wait really?

Best I could find was this arstechnica article from 2022:

Microsoft trackers run afoul of DuckDuckGo, get added to blocklist: Search privacy company still needs Bing, but won't allow Microsoft's trackers. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/microsoft-trackers-run-afoul-of-duckduckgo-get-added-to-blocklist/

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago

Yeah that would be it:

Previously, we were limited in how we could apply our 3rd-Party Tracker Loading Protection on Microsoft tracking scripts due to a policy requirement related to our use of Bing as a source for our private search results

I couldn't remember the details exactly, but basically up until then they were allowing Microsoft tracking despite all their advertising claiming they wouldn't track users.

[–] dan@upvote.au 24 points 1 week ago

SearX is dead; you should use SearXNG now.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I feel like Microsoft is way more shameless about their shady stuff. They've been messing around with impersonating google/chrome for awhile now, they recently had that thing where they would copy all your open chrome tabs, and then when you started your computer it would open edge with all your chrome tabs to trick people into using edge instead.

[–] vinyl@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

They aren't afraid of people complaining about them, they are afraid of the government, and they fulfill a hefty amount of contracts for the gov

[–] vinyl@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I would use anything else before DDG, the primary function of it which is searching, generally feels sucky

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Why? DDG is fine for search, and the bangs make up for any issues.