• superkret@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    Just tried setting no country, then ducked “wine”.
    Results were definitely still from my country first.
    When I set display language to US English, results came up from the US, instead.
    When I set it to French, it shows French websites at the top.
    So the language you set affects what websites you are shown in the results. That sucks.

    But you can actually just turn off ads in the settings. That’s pretty fucking neat!

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      2 days ago

      Even the lite and html versions of DDG will provide locationally biased search results. There’s no way around this. Best you can do is use a VPN, but then you’ve still got the problem of reading locationally biased results, just for a different location. It sucks.