[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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Newmemba ago

Yandex works for me

kmccormick ago

I dont trust the russian equivalent of google any more than google, but if you dont care about privacy, and you dont have interest in what russia censors, whathever

Newmemba ago

I also use DDG to a lessor extent and to an even smaller extent I use Ixquick. Depends on what turns up Yandex does a pretty good job usually.

It seems to me that any value my searches have to anyone will be the least to the Ruskies.

What's your recommendation for a search engine?

sir_andy_of_bad ago

I trust it more than Google, that's saying something