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Re: Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?

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Post by bsder »

chroma wrote: post #197
prophesi wrote: post #181

One thing that rocked me to the core and changed my stance on privacy recently is how child porn/abuse/trafficking/grooming/etc is simply swept under the rug by the Tech Giants. Safe Harbor laws have been used to push the problem elsewhere, and the issue is accruing exponentially. These images are absolutely everywhere; Facebook removes millions every year from their platform. And these are just the ones posted in pl…

I really think Sam had the wool pulled over his eyes by Gabriel Dance. Around 17 minutes into the podcast, Dance says that he's been investigating tech companies for years and goes into issues with ad targeting, Twitter bots, etc. Then when he's relating the story about getting a tip, he effectively admits that he's pursuing this because he wants to make tech companies look bad. This explains why he always quotes abs…

> Then when he's relating the story about getting a tip, he effectively admits that he's pursuing this because he wants to make tech companies look bad.

Just because he's a gadfly doesn't automatically make him wrong.

However, I just don't understand how these images are so common. If I ever stumbled on an image like that I would assume that it was obviously a honeypot.

Re: Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?

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Post by exciteabletom »

smallchungus wrote: post #199
tomcam wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

WTF. That was creepy beyond belief.

Those kinds of pictures only show up when I manually switch region to United States.

Such images are showing up for me with region set to Australia.

Re: Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?

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Post by buisi »

Jenk wrote: post #125

Clicking the images tab probably explains why. There are many pictures of very young girls in various states of undress.

I'm a bit conflicted on this. I don't want content like this appearing in search results. But I don't think a clumsy keyword filter will make it go away. And it might push pedophiles looking for a quick fix to places with harder content or echo chambers.

Re: Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?

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Post by buisi »

Lambdanaut wrote: post #156
GoblinSlayer wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the other hand search for pedobear gives text results, but no image results.

Same for "pedophile" so this seems to be a sort of blacklist.

They have been censoring any results vaguely related to pedophilia for the past year. If you search for "lolis" or "lolicon" which are fictional cartoons, that will be censored.

Re: Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?

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Post by buisi »

goblin89 wrote: post #182
prophesi wrote: post #181

One thing that rocked me to the core and changed my stance on privacy recently is how child porn/abuse/trafficking/grooming/etc is simply swept under the rug by the Tech Giants. Safe Harbor laws have been used to push the problem elsewhere, and the issue is accruing exponentially. These images are absolutely everywhere; Facebook removes millions every year from their platform. And these are just the ones posted in pl…

If there was ever a discussion that should be heard by more people working in tech, that’s that right there. DDG’s results are (perhaps decreasingly) heavily based on Bing, which as you will learn from that discussion had had significant issues with CP discovered (and reported to FBI) in its search results effortlessly—even while the same images were flagged by Microsoft’s own photo DNA algorithm.

Did they ever confirm it was CP? Or did they report it without looking at it because it was flagged by the algorithm and didn't want to be held liable?

Re: Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?

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Post by teetertater »

annoyingnoob wrote: post #155
Jenk wrote: post #125

Clicking the images tab probably explains why. There are many pictures of very young girls in various states of undress.

We hired a baby sitter once that was from Ukraine. I made the mistake of Googling her unique name. Her VK profile was a whole different person from the sitter at my house.

Haha her name is probably far less unique than you think. My Slavic name is fairly unique in the Western world but there are literally thousands of people with it on VK.

When you want to add a friend on VK, you have to ask them for things like city, school, and age just to narrow down the results!

Re: Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?

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Post by GoblinSlayer »

monkpit wrote: post #148
GoblinSlayer wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Heh, I don't even know how google feels, much like I don't know how ransomware and heroin feels. We don't really have to try everything in life, do we?

Congratulations on your moral superiority

Hygiene is important for me on its own, unrelated to other people.
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