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Except that you do, exactly in the way that the reporter of the issue explained to you.
But you choose to patronize them and ignore the issue.
Formerly worked with DuckDuckGo My advice: Install ungoogled-chromium: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium Install these extensions: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock https://github.com/ilGur1132/Smart-HTTPS There is also a Chromium extension that lets you install from Chrome Web Store: https://github.com/NeverDecaf/chromium-web-store Set duckduckgo.com as your default search engine with a blank home page.…
Could you please elaborate as to why you suggest ilGur1132's Smart-HTTPS instead of EFF's HTTPS-Everywhere?
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I cannot recommend Brave due to the autosuggestions-for-profit feature. Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23474842 You can install uBlock Origin in 10 seconds from the GitHub release page (see previous link shared). This is vastly better than anything I've seen for ad-blocking.
Wow, I did not know about that. Between this and the original post it seems no matter what every company ends up selling its soul to the devil.
DuckDuckGo staff here. As mentioned in the linked page, the purpose of the request is to retrieve a website's favicon so that it can be displayed in certain places within the app or on the results page. We use an internal favicon service because it can be complicated to locate a favicon for a website. They can be stored in a variety of locations and in a variety of formats. The service understands these edge cases an…
Can you tell how many visited site A and also site B?
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We had already had created this anonymous favicon service for our private search engine. In addition, doing it this way avoids another request (and potentially multiple) to the end site. The service is private as we do not collect any personal information (e.g. IP addresses) on any requests for this or any service and the requests are all end-to-end encrypted.
Please don't downvote this reply from a DDG staff member (as I'm currently seeing). Even if you don't like the reply it's good that we're getting replies.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
I don't really think is an ad hominem fallacy. An ad homihem fallacy is when you attack the person making an argument rather than the argument. But no one here is attacking the people making the argument. The argument is "Trust DDG". That argument is being attacked as "DDG's founder has done bad stuff in the past, it's likely DDG will do bad stuff, so I won't trust it". That seems to be attacking the argument to me,…
I think that distinction needs to be made. I think DDG should treat this app as a web browser which means phoning home to this endpoint is unacceptable.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
A common fallacy I see, though I don't know if there's a name for it, is assuming that just because what someone is doing can be described by the name of a fallacy that what the person is doing is fallacious.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
A common fallacy I see, though I don't know if there's a name for it, is assuming that just because what someone is doing can be described by the name of a fallacy that what the person is doing is fallacious.