• WhyEssEff [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    ive never lost as much respect in a short timespan for a group like i have duckduckgo

    • Wheaties [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      I guess their primary userbase must now be chuds angry at Google? A few years ago, I think this probably would have ended them as a company.

      • END [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Why would chuds angry at Google not be mad at this?

        • Wheaties [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          They were never using DuckDuckGo for privacy cool reasons, they were mad Google was returning mean results about their big wet boy :thicc-trump:

          I think they were also mad that Mob Psycho 100 was showing up in "mob" image searches.

          • END [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            That's been the primary DDG usership since forever and it overlaps with people who care about privacy and "unfettered" results quite a lot anyway.

          • eXAt [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            Uhh, could you explain the second part a bit more? Why would they be mad at those image results?

        • SoyViking [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Are you implying that I wasn't safe all these times I typed "how to do a terrorism?" and "where can I become an extremist?" into DDG?

  • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Man, fuck them. Is there a search engine that doesn't try to dictate what you see?

    • ahshidahfuck [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      I use ecosia, they seem at least somewhat concerned about privacy and the searches plant trees :quokka-smile:

    • END [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Maaaaaaybe Brave Search. Otherwise indie-hosted Searx servers.

      Edit: Just checked and Fmovies.to works on search.brave.com while it's gone from DDG. Although DDG still lists Nyaa.si (which I thought was the original site and not .se?) and RuTracker, etc.

      • NewAcctWhoDis [any]
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        2 years ago

        If I remember the deep lore correctly, nyaa.se was the original, after it went down nyaa.pantsu.moe was the first copy to pop up, then came nyaa.si and a brief culture war between the two. HorribleSubs went to nyaa.si because of some Twitter talk about sexism or something on the part of pantsu, which cemented si as the winner.

    • KiaKaha [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Yandex, the Russian one.

      EDIT: yeah nah, it doesn’t work. Not showing the original pirate bay.

        • KiaKaha [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          The original is thepiratebay.org. You can find knockoff ones even in Google.

          • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            What's the difference between the URLs with and without the hyphen? They look like mirrors of each other.

            • KiaKaha [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              Maybe the hyphen one is a legit mirror that just hasn’t been blocked yet. The point is, the OG isn’t showing up with Yandex, meaning it’s censoring it too (or gets its English language results from Bing like every other non-Google browser).

              • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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                2 years ago

                When I search for "site:thepiratebay.org" on Yandex it gives me several results, unlike duckduckgo. Google gives a few results.

    • The_Walkening [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      I'm not sure there could ever be a totally neutral search engine given they work based on guessing whether something would be relevant to you, but one that's not being used to sell ads would be far better.

  • comi [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Fucks sake, time for some browser extension with useful links saved, I always forget exact name of trackers

  • pikman1 [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    AVGN voice

    "DuckDuckGo? MORE LIKE FUCKFUCKBLOW!!!"

  • Grace [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    sad! and ive been getting used to them for a while now.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Somebody needs to make this series of torrents UkraineFreedomPacks 1 of 518. Now what are you gonna do DuckDuckGo?