[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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Anson 6.5 years ago

I tried really hard to use searx 2-3 years ago as my primary but its search results were reminiscent of the non-google search engines from the ninties and ought 2000s (nearly totally irrelevant most of the time).

Also, who makes searx? I did research back then however I'm not convinced it's not Chinese based as the x sound in Chinese words makes the ch sound and makes sense with the spelling

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kmccormick 6.5 years ago

It is opensource, according to its github, some autist from Hungary is the creator. https://github.com/asciimoo/searx

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WhiteMan 6.5 years ago

Microsoft owns github now

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