Dr. Unabart :vepi: :jrbd: on Nostr: DuckDuckGo is being exploited by ad networks. I fkn hate ads and when I see them, I ...
DuckDuckGo is being exploited by ad networks. I fkn hate ads and when I see them, I go to my pihole logs to see where they’re coming from. Seems these ad networks are somehow using sync/improving/external-content.duckduckgo.com to stuff their ads into. If you block these, the ads vanish, as does functionality of the search engine. It’s bullshit and they should do something about this, unless they finally went to the dark side and harbor this knowingly.
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