https://mobile.twitter.com/yegg/status/1501716484761997318
I guess three years was a good run: https://mobile.twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1043859278774370305
I think by the end of the decade, every country/sphere of countries will have their own carefully curated, walled extranets.
Once everything you disagree with is dismissed out of hand as being misinformation, there's no stopping it.
Sure does feel like it. Everything inconvenient to the truth is Russian or Chinese disinformation, but our information can be relied on, just trust us.
And it's so easy for the US to start censoring websites even without blocking them. They can start rate limiting packets from other countries with the ISP "fast lane" excuse since "net neutrality" was ended. That will make using any website in another country unbearably slow so as to be impossible to use. Not that it matters much, since it is very rare that I even visit websites hosted in other countries.
I got real sus vibes from duckduckgo the moment I started seeing fuckin TV advertisements at my workplace for it. The moment you've got enough money to run TV ads I don't think I want any part in what you're offering lmao
I thought something was going on with ddg lately. Hilarious replies to the tweet too. Liberals are so fucking smug while being demonstrably wrong
My favorite absolutely baby-brained response on that thread is "who are you to decide for me what's relevant on the internet?" What the fuck do you think the point of a search engine is?
When people stopped paying for TV and print media, all those propaganda voices had to go somewhere. It also pisses them off so, so, so much that the open internet just let's you view primary sources about life outside the "international rules based order" rather than tall tales about what evil Big Bad's regime is spreading all over the globe with the source "trust me bro, we're good for it".
This! It's still a problem in academia also, I remember at university they would not let you (and afaik still don't) cite Wikipedia. Has to be all "academic", in other words institutionally approved sources (books, official statements etc).
Agree, the point was more about only "legit" sources being acceptable. Which do have their own biases. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-security-wikipedia-idUSN1642896020070816
I wasn't aware of that. I knew they could cite mainstream sources heavily and exclusively, but I didn't know that was the policy rather than just what most editors did.
That's less a bias issue than it is an issue with what kinds of sources in general are appropriate for citation in academic writing. The issue is not with Wikipedia itself, but rather with the fact that Wikipedia is a tertiary source, like any encyclopedia. I think most professors on the younger side recognize Wikipedia as a generally reliable source for information (with some exceptions). It's a great place to start your research, but it's usually far too general to be of use in constructing a good paper. It's useful for orienting yourself, getting a 10,000 meter view on a subject, or learning what the general professional consensus is about some issue (again, with some exceptions--it's much less trustworthy when it comes to current events and politics than it is when it comes to quantum mechanics), but it should be a jumping off point, like any other tertiary source.
Why do they always use those profile pictures? Do they have some sort of cultural connotation for out of touch liberals?
If you watch CNN which I know nobody on here outside of @inshallah2 does, you'll see they run ads for DDG. That right there speaks volumes about their character.
I remember someone here recommending DDG...
What's a good search engine? google has become bing tier garbage.
Maybe https://www.baidu.com/? It's mostly in Chinese but you can search English words. There's also Yandex (Russian search engine) I guess, which has an English UI.
If you're ever wonder "What's a good version of ____?" just look for other countries' version. It's not necessarily "good", but it's "sovereign" at least, and is less likely to be collecting data for the US and censoring stuff.
NPR runs DDG adverts every hour also. Capitalist realism and alladat
DDG is the only search engine I ever saw billboards for, on a road trip. Suspicious imo.
I think we basically have to accept that every search engine sucks and is going to be politically biased by both the country it operates in, and the personal interests of whoever owns it, and just keep using what's available with suitable caution.
Yup same as it ever was really just now people are saying it out loud instead of claiming impartiality.
Be it security, search, or anything else on a computer assume that you're in non ideal circumstances because you are. Then act accordingly.
You don't. Not well, anyways. Every action silicon valley takes is pushing more and more users to the only acceptable alternative: personally curated RSS feeds
Yandex probably doesn't care enough about English language searches to manipulate them.
Baidu and Yandex if you need to look up something on a topic that's sensitive to the US ruling class and in t he news.
Doesn't it literally mine crypto or something
Also started by the dude who got kicked out of Mozilla for funding anti gay marriage groups lmao
No American or western based anything is "good", especially if it's got so much fancy marketing around it.
They very clearly track you either not at all, or at least in far fewer ways than Google, an improvement either way. Google doesn't sell your data (except they actually do) because they're also the ad agency which is what most companies find the info is useful for.
While it's all a grey area on how useful it is, I think it's actively harmful to claim there's no difference here. It does make a meaningful difference.
Moving away from Google to DDG is a serious blow to online ads and ad effectiveness, and does support pro-privacy orgs. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, but DDG is a step up. On top of that, I find DDG to be much better than Google anyway. Though I'm not a loyal fan by any means and would love a totally open and/or uncensored search engine even more.
Google have also been subpeonad many times for all sorts of info, it's very, very common. Using a company that doesn't store that info in the first place, again, makes a difference.
I'm not gonna use a search engine that has been consistently getting worse for the past like 7 years
Lol their claim in the GitHub link you posted is so sus. How is it "hard to locate favicons". It's literally one of the easiest things to do. The HTML <head> element contains a reference to it, and on most sites it's also at "/favicon.ico". And "different content types" is like one of the main things the web is supposed to be for. HTTP is built around being able to serve multiple content types! So so so sleazy.
I never really buys into Duckduckgo's claims, particularly with the fact that it's popularity are based off chuds using it as google alternative in mind.
So reading all the pissed off (lib)ertarians and chuds in the replies actually made me happy. Critical support to DuckDuckGo in ruining righties' day.
The "alternative" that DDG provides is that they won't push blatantly lib shit on you like Google, and they won't "censor" "real news" and entertainment like Babylon Bee or Breitbart. It's still NSA shit, just team GOP instead of team DNC.
in typical American extravagance, we have two walled-playpen propaganda sorters
No, we have a DemonRAT infested propaganda machine/source of real FACTS ONLY (reality has a liberal bias :smug:) and a patriotic, unbiased collection of real news/pit of Russian disinformation and Cheeto Hitler yesmen.
