[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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UnknownAlias365 6.5 years 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.

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nonserial 6.5 years ago

Searx is a metasearch engine, which means it doesnt maintain its own index and pulls its results from dozens of other websites (including ddg and voat) instead. Also, searx is open-source: https://github.com/asciimoo/searx

If you have problems with https://searx.me, here is al list with active searx instances: https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/Searx-instances

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