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Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo grew by 46% in 2021

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Re: Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo grew by 46% in 2021

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> Not according to the console view (F12) for images in the browser. You can also verify this with your firewall and dns lookups. Are you talking about the DDG browser? On the website, icos and other external content is proxied. > Also uses bing.net, mm.bing.net for safe search and explicit.bing.net for not safe search, but with a GUID linked to every image it pulls in, so there is still traceability and thus account…

>Are you talking about the DDG browser? On the website, icos and other external content is proxied. In MS Edge they appear as separate external links pulled in to the webpage. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=some+query Press F12 Application Tab Frames, Expand Images and you can see the icons there. >We (Okeano) don't send any PII to Bing. What do you mean by PII? On its own its a jigsaw piece, with other jigsaw pieces you…

I just checked and they all go through either external-content.duckduckgo.com or duckduckgo.com For example, the Hacker News favicon loads from https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/ip3/news.ycombinator...

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something. How would you rather have the favicons (or any images) displayed? Not at all?

Re: Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo grew by 46% in 2021

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Surely you don't think that it's Google's responsibility to return any random bullshit that happens to be on the internet? I go there to figure something out. I don't care that some conspiracy theorists believe the earth is flat, if I search for "theory of gravity" I don't want any flat earth garbage.

> Surely you don't think that it's Google's responsibility to return any random bullshit that happens to be on the internet? Uh, yes? It's an internet search engine, it's literally its job.

It's really not. Its job is to sort the internet. Just returning whatever low-value crap is not useful.

Re: Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo grew by 46% in 2021

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Surely you don't think that it's Google's responsibility to return any random bullshit that happens to be on the internet? I go there to figure something out. I don't care that some conspiracy theorists believe the earth is flat, if I search for "theory of gravity" I don't want any flat earth garbage.

Part of being able to distinguish the garbage in life is being able to see all sides presented and being smart enough to know what is correct. Sorry if you need Google to help you with this. You'll probably see 5 pages of ads, old sites, and spam before you see the wacky conspiracy stuff like flat earth and Russiagate.

Really? You want to do some research on, e.g. covid and you think it's best to just uniformly sample every idiot opinion across the internet?
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