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tbh if we want some competition to google we should support bing
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> "At DuckDuckGo, we've been rolling out search updates that down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation. In addition to down-ranking sites associated with disinformation, we also often place news modules and information boxes at the top of DuckDuckGo search results (where they are seen and clicked the most) to highlight quality information for rapidly unfolding topics." https://twitter.com/yegg/status/150…
I realize that due to own my unfortunate phrasing, how our news results rankings work have been highly misinterpreted since then. I subsequently put out a clarification thread ( https://twitter.com/yegg/status/1515635886855233537 ) and then we (DuckDuckGo) made a help page to explain how our news rankings actually work. I suggest anyone interested check it out (it’s short): https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help…
tbh if we want some competition to google we should support bing
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Some unintended consequences: > This change caused my chromium browser to report that it's being managed by my "organization". I thought that my machine was somehow compromised. This is terrifying! I wound up deleting my entire chromium profile before I discovered that the root cause was this DuckDuckGo config change. https://bugs.debian.org/956012
It's superficial but I completely understand the alarm
For those noticing this, be aware that you'll likely see it elsewhere. Don't panic.
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I don't know, but that seems like a reasonable funding solution given that Google is expected to pay Apple ~$20B this year: https://dazeinfo.com/2022/01/05/google-pays-apple-for-not-la...
Apple has hundreds of millions of wealthy customers. Debian does not.
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Fedora did this for a while to inject the word "Fedora" into the User Agent. They eventually stopped because users were similarly spooked.
They still do it
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Fedora did this for a while to inject the word "Fedora" into the User Agent. They eventually stopped because users were similarly spooked.
Putting even more identifying information into User Agent strings seems completely insane, who's interests is that meant to serve? The number of people in any town with Fedora in their UA must be minuscule, that blows a huge number of 'privacy bits', and for what?
I love the project, I really dislike this 'gather things that might be useful to someone' behavior and having to MITM my system to see what it's actually doing
tbh if we want some competition to google we should support bing