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

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Lately, almost every conspiracy theory has been proven true. Or a more outrageous conspiracy theory is based on somewhat less aggravating true facts, that are then misconstrued as a more far fetched conspiracy:-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conspiracy_theories I am very interested in seeing you explain which ones have been proven true and your citing of sources.

Example A - Outrageous But False Claim's: Pizzagate

-> "Debunked conspiracy theory that after Hillary Clinton's campaign email hack falsely claimed emails contained coded messages that connected several high-ranking Democratic Party officials and alleged human trafficking child sex ring"

Minor But Still Serious and True Facts:

Anthony Weiner was elected for New York congressional terms as Democrat politician 7 times. In September 2016, claims were published that Weiner had engaged in sexting with a 15-year-old girl from North Carolina, and devices owned by Weiner were seized as part of an investigation into this incident. The report prompted a criminal investigation and Weiner's laptop was seized. Emails that were pertinent to the Hillary Clinton email controversy were discovered on the laptop; The Wall Street Journal reported that federal prosecutors were weighing whether or not to bring child pornography charges against Weiner over the incident On May 19, 2017, Weiner pleaded guilty to another, unrelated sexting charge of transferring obscene material to a minor, and was sentenced to 21 months in prison, ordered to pay a $10,000 fine, and was required to permanently register as a sex offender.

Example B - Crazy Conspiracy Theory: Government Was Stealing Dead Bodies to do Radioactive Testing.

True: “Project Sunshine" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_SUNSHINE

Example C - Conspiracy:

The Dalai Lama is a CIA agent.

Minor But Still Serious and True Facts:

...According to declassified intelligence documents, The Dalai Lama earned $180,000 in connection with the CIA’s funding of the Tibetan Resistance to the tune of $1.7 million per year...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_Tibetan_program

Example D - Conspiracy: The government is using it's vast resources to track citizens.

True: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden

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Here's one: https://mashable.com/article/duckduckgo-search-engine-russia...

People complain about search engines like Google being full of garbage and fake info. DDG takes actions against that and people cry that it’s not fair. Are they supposed to just let governments astroturf their way to the top with propaganda?

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Here's one: https://mashable.com/article/duckduckgo-search-engine-russia...

People complain about search engines like Google being full of garbage and fake info. DDG takes actions against that and people cry that it’s not fair. Are they supposed to just let governments astroturf their way to the top with propaganda?

One of the reasons I left google is precisely because they started downranking content for political reasons, just as DDG started doing.

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People complain about search engines like Google being full of garbage and fake info. DDG takes actions against that and people cry that it’s not fair. Are they supposed to just let governments astroturf their way to the top with propaganda?

They certainly shouldn’t be singling out one specific country’s astroturfing for down ranking.

I agree, but a response to a topical issue is not necessarily evidence of that.

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Question: does anyone actually know what DDG does with user data? Like they market themselves as a "privacy respecting" search engine, but how much of this is truth? I'd imagine there's good money in convincing people they have privacy because then they'll provide more interesting data. Has the company ever been audited? Why should they be trusted to not compromise user privacy? Imo at least Google is honest: you kno…

I used them nearly exclusively and recommended them to all my friends. Once they started censoring content for political reasons (Ukraine), that ended instantly.

Which enlightened search engine did you switch to that doesn't bias results?

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There are so many issues with DDG, but nobody cares [1]. Idea of having privacy focused search engine is strong. Then use kagi or searX. [1] https://lemmy.ml/post/31321

Can you provide a TL;DR of the article? I'm a DDG user but open to considering alternatives, never heard of kagi and tried searX a long time ago. Currently, whenever DDG doesn't cut it, I add the !sp bang and get Google results through StartPage. I know that SP is owned by an advertising company but I still prefer them to straight up Google. I tried using searX to get proxied Google results but it required a few extr…

Checkout https://you.com - it's privacy focussed, ad-free and also supports bangs
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