[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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J_Darnley ago

I support people using anything to get them out of Google's clutches. Just because you think DuckDuckGo isn't perfect doesn't mean it isn't a vast improvement.

Mustard_Monkey ago

Exactly. This jew information about DuckDuckGo won't make me use Google or Bing ever again. I will stick to DuckDuckGo seems SearX.me preference manager is the same as DDG. The dot me is out of http://www.gov.me/en/homepage/ MONTENEGRO? I use Brave Browser which it does not support anyways. But regardless I won't use a EU based search engine SearX.