[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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curbstompfun 6.5 years ago

There's no such thing as security. It's an illusion. At some point you're going to have to realize that you can't avoid censorship without actively advocating your own ideas in their place.

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Hand_of_Node 6.5 years ago

Oh hello again @voltronsdicks

Hey, at least you're not posting that as an autoloading PDF anymore.

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curbstompfun 6.5 years ago

We meet again hand of node!

Too many faggots were making bullshit claims about some IP tracking bullshit embedded in the PDF (the older faggots remember this smear campaign as well) so the tech guys handling the project changed the format.

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Hand_of_Node 6.5 years ago

People dislike autoloading stuff in general. All I remember about those (and maybe this one...) is those cheerleaders with the blue butts about halfway down. And frankly, the writing was terrible back then.

Technical question: Assuming you had more than 99 pages of comments, did the comments past page 99 advance forward as you deleted, or did you have fewer than 99 pages?

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curbstompfun 6.5 years ago

Nobody gives a fuck about whether writing is good or bad. If it was really all about bad writing, they wouldn't have tried so hard with their faggot smear campaign. That's just a bullshit excuse to say they got butthurt by hearing the truth and don't want to admit it.

As far as the comments go I have no clue. They weren't all that important to me anyway.

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