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DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its Search Results

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Re: DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its Search Results

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Post by theknocker »

jfengel wrote: post #19
Apreche wrote: post #13

Someone should make a search engine that only indexes sites that Google and DuckDuckgo do not index. It would serve sort of the same purpose as like, lists of banned books.

You want a list of spam sites, phishing, malware, and SEO-driven gibberish with back-links? Yeah, I guess that would probably be useful for something. Academic research into just how awful people are, perhaps. And, of course, as a blackhole list. Just make sure you get a bulk discount on disk space. Such a list would be huge .

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Re: DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its Search Results

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Post by greggsy »

babypuncher wrote: post #25
Apreche wrote: post #13

Someone should make a search engine that only indexes sites that Google and DuckDuckgo do not index. It would serve sort of the same purpose as like, lists of banned books.

I appreciate the sentiment but such an index would be 99.9% spam, malware, and phishing.

Not to mention some incredibly horrible NSFL shit

Re: DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its Search Results

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Post by cato_the_elder »

srvmshr wrote: post #39

Serious Question: How is the DDG search structured? Is it a cosmetic skin over Bing, or is it aggregating from other sites like Yahoo, ecosia etc additionally? If it is just Bing under the hood, how does it exist as business entity. I am sure MS will take some action to consolidate their search share rather than seeing splintered.

> If it is just Bing under the hood, how does it exist as business entity.

They provide an alternative branding, targeted at "privacy-aware" users and hipsters.

Re: DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its Search Results

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Post by darkteflon »

jfengel wrote: post #19
Apreche wrote: post #13

Someone should make a search engine that only indexes sites that Google and DuckDuckgo do not index. It would serve sort of the same purpose as like, lists of banned books.

You want a list of spam sites, phishing, malware, and SEO-driven gibberish with back-links? Yeah, I guess that would probably be useful for something. Academic research into just how awful people are, perhaps. And, of course, as a blackhole list. Just make sure you get a bulk discount on disk space. Such a list would be huge .

To be fair, “SEO-driven gibberish with back-links” is an apt description of Google’s actual results these days.

Re: DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its Search Results

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Post by hackernewds »

greggsy wrote: post #62
babypuncher wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I appreciate the sentiment but such an index would be 99.9% spam, malware, and phishing.

Not to mention some incredibly horrible NSFL shit

Not to mention, Game of Thrones spoilers

Re: DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its Search Results

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Post by zodzedzi »

I use DDG as my default search engine, along with NoScript in the browser. Often when I visit a new website, I peruse the (long) list of domains that the site is trying to pull javascripts from.

I keep most of those source sites in UNTRUSTED status (including some of the big names in search/ads/etc). But I've always had DDG in the TRUSTED category because I had only seen its javascript before on the main DDG website.

(Unfortunately NoScript has a limitation that you can't tell it to "only TRUST javascript from example.com when I'm visiting example.com").

But recently I started noticing some websites pulling javascript from DDG (I don't remember which sites).

So now I was wondering if DDG is getting into the tracking business, since they're now having their javascripts load from third party sites.

Obviously this is anecdotal. But does anyone know if they are indeed beginning to track?

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