[PSA] DuckDuckGo was founded by a Jew that openly gathered personal information before

[PSA] DuckDuckGo was founded by a Jew that openly gathered personal information before (technology)

submitted 6.5 years ago by kmccormick

I am seeing a lot of links here in voat about the increment in usage of "privacy oriented" browser ddg. It has not yet be proven that DDG violates your privacy, but it is highly probable given the previous history of its founder. It is openly known (even wikipeda has info about it)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_Database

Alternatives? I am using searx, it is an aggregator, you can choose which engines to use, it is opensource and there is many instances so you can use which ever you want, and even host your own. https://searx.me https://searx.me/about

Edit: Thanks @sbt2160p for this link: https://8ch.net/tech/ddg.html

Edit2: You can make voat a source (preferences > engines > social media > voat) and search directly in voat with !vo (Example https://searx.me/?q=%21vo%20duckduckgo)

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SukkhaMadiqqa 6.5 years ago

The default image search on searx.me for "white inventors" lists black people.

I suspect settings need some modifications for it to be a trustworthy search engine.

In fairness even DuckDuckGo does this.

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VapidGopher 6.5 years ago

Thanks for the link

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murface 6.5 years ago

Just search for "inventors' and you'll see plenty of white inventors. Including the word 'white' pulls in articles where race is referenced. Without the term it's plain to see that there is no such thing as a black inventor.

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sir_andy_of_bad 6.5 years ago

Exact. White Inventors and "White Inventors" will poll completely different results as well.

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mrfetus 6.5 years ago

(((They))) are shilling the shit out of DDG, DO NOT USE IT

https://voat.co/v/technology/2784773 ⬅️ clear shilling https://voat.co/v/technology/2784586 https://voat.co/v/theawakening/2780454

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kmccormick 6.5 years ago

Remember, you can change in configurations which engines are you using behind, and the results will come from those engines (without tracking personalization), so disable google images. On another note, "white inventors" has become famous on itself and many images will come from articles about googling "white inventors", if we search only for "inventors" most of them should be white and no black, thats important. If you want a list of white inventors a search engine is only good for finding such list, but no for compiling it

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