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On 19-08-19 22:50, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> On Monday, August 19, 2019 04:17:26 PM steef wrote:
>> On 19-08-19 17:45, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
>>> On Monday, August 19, 2019 08:27:57 AM steef wrote:
>>>> On 19-08-19 00:41, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> 
>>>>> Is that the problem you are concerned about?
>>>>
>>>> well, yes. because it is possible to avoid these sites for only one
>>>> session using duckduckgo. the next session one must again block out
>>>> these sites. that is cumbersome and annoying allthough i understand
>>>> that duckduckgo somehow must get paid for.
>>>
>>> How do you block out those search results?  Do you put something in the
>>> search that says something like "not:<advertising_site.com>?
>>
>> .........well: on the right side on top of the duckduckgo page you see/find
>> four small lines. touch these and you see a row with further
>> possibilities. One of these possibilities is the english equivalent of
>> 'overige instellingen'(dutch): something like 'remaining settings' click
>> on these 'settings' and you see another row  with advertenties (dutch)
>> advertisement i guess in english. click once on advertisement (or
>> whatever) to put them off ('uit' in dutch). if you put your browser off
>> and afterwards on again you must repeat this imho  tedious process to pue
>> them off again and so on. that's it and i hope i am clear enough.
> 
> Ahh, ok, I never knew that was there.  I turned it off on a DDG page, and then
> clicked save.  I'll see if it works, and then see if it works again after I
> restart Firefox -- but it may be a long time until I find out, as I keep my
> browser up until it crashes (and sometimes have 1000 or more tabs open) --
> usually I can recover those, but I prefer not to try it unless I have to.
> 
> 
i wish you good luck with that!

reg.,

steef

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duckduckgo steef <debian.linux@home.nl> - 2019-08-18 18:50 +0200
  Re: duckduckgo nektarios <nektarios@mail.nektarioskatakis.xyz> - 2019-08-18 19:20 +0200
    Re: duckduckgo steef <debian.linux@home.nl> - 2019-08-18 20:40 +0200
      Re: duckduckgo steef <debian.linux@home.nl> - 2019-08-18 21:30 +0200
      Re: duckduckgo Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-08-18 21:30 +0200
        Re: duckduckgo Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2019-08-18 22:40 +0200
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              Re: duckduckgo arne <sp113438@telfort.nl> - 2019-08-19 02:00 +0200
                Re: duckduckgo Finn <mail.finn@disroot.org> - 2019-08-21 05:50 +0200
                Re: duckduckgo Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-08-21 07:10 +0200
              Re: duckduckgo <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-08-19 10:30 +0200
                Re: duckduckgo Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2019-08-19 15:20 +0200
                Re: duckduckgo Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2019-08-19 22:00 +0200
                Re: duckduckgo Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2019-08-19 22:20 +0200
            Re: duckduckgo Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2019-08-19 01:20 +0200
              Re: duckduckgo ghe <ghe@slsware.net> - 2019-08-19 01:30 +0200
            Re: duckduckgo Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2019-08-19 11:00 +0200
    Re: duckduckgo rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-08-18 22:10 +0200
      Re: duckduckgo steef <debian.linux@home.nl> - 2019-08-18 23:30 +0200
        Re: duckduckgo steef <debian.linux@home.nl> - 2019-08-19 14:50 +0200
          Re: duckduckgo steef <debian.linux@home.nl> - 2019-08-19 22:20 +0200
            Re: duckduckgo steef <debian.linux@home.nl> - 2019-08-19 23:30 +0200

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