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~tffb

no specific news link - just duckduckgo.com/=?news yada yada yada. But the "News" section can be toggled before hitting search (or 🔍) and then it's ALL the News! ;)

I'm in the same boat about not wanting to be an isolated under-the-rock dweller and having to know SOMETHING about what people are saying about XYZ hot topic.

I'm far past the "mainstream press is evil"/hipster phase of my life. I just sincerely don't dig into random news stories because one of infinite things will happen - I get frustrated and furious - infinitely.

But, I keep up with a few headline themes that bring me joy. The downfall of Facebook, the "drama" of Musk up-ending Twitter (the service deserves it, and people still Tweet-storming around there probably need an undeniable reason to leave the service, once and for all), both of which are "tough love" scenarios, but, call me a "tough lover", lmao! No one helped or held my hand when I was jonesing off social media in 2019, just like no one coddled and comforted me when I was sobering up from narcotics as a teenager - it was "have fun and good luck - no sobriety? No roof over your head" - reality-smashing shit like that.

But, it is what it is.

Most news/info of the world comes via blog for me, though. blogroll.org/planet (or, their RSS feed), Read.write.as, my own 1Feed RSS acct, etc. Things will "seep in" to my orbit should I NEED to hear/read them, so I sort of expect that. Haven't been let down, yet :)

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~inquiry wrote:

I guess what I meant to ask (but didn't know the correct terminology) was whether duckduckgo had their own news *aggregator*, which I guess is what news.google.com is.

But they don't seem to.

Even their news "bang" (https://duckduckgo.com/bang) - which is allegedly "!news" - merely directs the DDG browser to a not-very-news-specific search page.

Oh well....