[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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chemlord11 ago

Is there any other better search engines I can trust then? (I don't think I can trust the one you linked any more the DDG)

kmccormick ago

The one i linked is opensource, if you dont trust it you can inspect the code and run your own instance (the best, because the info remains in your control). There is also qwant, that is the same as DDG (propietary and claims to respect your privacy) but based on europe instead of USA (France is not part of PRISM so thats better). Startpage uses google result but preserves your privacy, and lxquick is similar to startx and by the same guys from startpage

chemlord11 ago

thanks for the options and will check them out.

NoRoyalty ago

What do you mean by "not trust" DDG? Can you reach sites you want to reach when you use it?

chemlord11 ago

you missunderstand. I use DDG as my main search. This person is saying DDG can't be trusted and when I checked out the engine he recommended I found it to be no better then DDG. My comment was asking for a better search engine that was objectively better then DDG with that in mind.

NoRoyalty ago

I did misunderstand.