I'm quite disappointed in Microsoft with their blatant submission to the CCP. I hope DDG switches search providers, because this is simply unacceptable behavior.
Ask HN: “Tank man” image search blocked on Bing and DuckDuckGo
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Re: Ask HN: “Tank man” image search blocked on Bing and DuckDuckGo
#42I confirm the symptoms happened for me as well. I used the !s bang to have startpage search it and startpage returned the image in the carousel and image results. I'm not certain I can continue to use duck duck go if it is going to give me results subjected to CCP censorship. I switched to it from Startpage as it had a less shady reputation than the latter, but Startpage hasn't messed with my actual searches like DDG…
Been using DDG for the past year the results are fairly poor and now they are licking CCP boot, ill have to start using startpage.
I've been using it for years and rarely do I have to go elsewhere. When I have struggle to find what I want and gone to google, the results are invariably worse under google. YMMV, E&OE.
I believe some senior DDG people frequent HN, so look forward to their explanation
Re: Ask HN: “Tank man” image search blocked on Bing and DuckDuckGo
#43Now try the search (without quotes)’img src’ on DDG images vs Yahoo images and ask yourself what’s up with that.
Re: Ask HN: “Tank man” image search blocked on Bing and DuckDuckGo
#44That’s very odd. In DDG, searching for “tank man” with “Safe search: moderate” returns 4 pictures of men in or next to tanks. Setting “Safe search: off” returns 0 pictures, not even the 4 utterly safe images from the “moderate” search.
It did when I searched 5 minutes ago. Now I get no results and "Images blocked by safe search" on strict/moderate, and no results on "off".
Oh wow, can confirm. Now I’m not getting any results either.
Re: Ask HN: “Tank man” image search blocked on Bing and DuckDuckGo
#45Just switch default search to start page:
https://support.startpage.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Artic...
Re: Ask HN: “Tank man” image search blocked on Bing and DuckDuckGo
#46Why is this flagged!?
Re: Ask HN: “Tank man” image search blocked on Bing and DuckDuckGo
#47Ccp flagged this thread lol
Re: Ask HN: “Tank man” image search blocked on Bing and DuckDuckGo
#48This definitely should not be flagged.
Re: Ask HN: “Tank man” image search blocked on Bing and DuckDuckGo
#49This shouldn't have been flagged. My understanding is that posts which comment on current events from a tech perspective are 100% within the bounds of acceptable behavior here.
Re: Ask HN: “Tank man” image search blocked on Bing and DuckDuckGo
#50I confirm the symptoms happened for me as well. I used the !s bang to have startpage search it and startpage returned the image in the carousel and image results. I'm not certain I can continue to use duck duck go if it is going to give me results subjected to CCP censorship. I switched to it from Startpage as it had a less shady reputation than the latter, but Startpage hasn't messed with my actual searches like DDG…
Been using DDG for the past year the results are fairly poor and now they are licking CCP boot, ill have to start using startpage.
DDG partners with several search providers. It seems they partner with Bing for image search.
Give them some time to investigate this and to consider switching to a new provider for search results. Microsoft is licking the CCP's boot here, as far as we know DDG is merely a victim to their complacency with censorship.