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

submitted 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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UnknownAlias365 ago

Hmm, doesn't searx use the same bs censored biased results that Google and other (((tech giants))) provide? I mean, when I use duckduckgo and Google side by side, there is a BIG difference in results that I get, Google's is left leaning censored horse shit, duckduckgo gives me anything and everything.

kmccormick ago

Searx is configurable, you can (and should) disable google results. You can put ddg as a source, and others too. Even voat can be a source!

drschwabe ago

how do you make Voat a source ?

kmccormick ago

preferences > engines > social media > voat

Pro tip: search using !vo for searching only in voat example try this search and you will find this post: https://searx.me/?q=%21vo%20duckduckgo

drschwabe ago

Nice! Here I thought I was the only one searching site:voat.co 'query' in Startpage/Google and also with Searx; didnt know Searx had this awesome integraiton already! And the shortcut no-less. Despite a cesspool of shills and shitposters, I'll take my information unffucking-filtered thankyou very much.

Fuggzin ago

Ahhh, thank you for this. Done!

UnknownAlias365 ago

Okay cool. I'll give it another go then.