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Debian's Chromium changes default search engine to DDG

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Re: Debian's Chromium changes default search engine to DDG

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Post by DiabloD3 »

DiabloD3 wrote: post #3
aendruk wrote: post #2

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

That sounds like a Firefox bug (and a common one I've seen in other software). Tell me what organization. "Debian" would have been perfectly fine to show here.

Whoops, meant Chromium. My bad.

Re: Debian's Chromium changes default search engine to DDG

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Post by Jcowell »

marginalia_nu wrote: post #108
isaacremuant wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

After DDG decided they would censor material they considered misinformation from Russia I went out search engine shopping and I'm using brave search. I value transparency and fairness and can make my own mind about things (I remember when being against the Iraq or Lybia wars made you a terrorist sympsthizer). Do you have any stance there? (I'm not saying you should have one or agree with mine, just curious. Every sea…

In general I'm not a big fan of censorship. I think it's ultimately counterproductive. It sends the message that the "truth" needs to be protected from independent scrutiny, effectively undermining the credibility of the institutions, while enabling crackpots to develop a persecution narrative. That said I do block some sites, mostly nazi stuff if it's designed in such a way that it crops up in regular searches. It's…

> while enabling crackpots to develop a persecution narrative.

I see this sentiment a lot lately and it seems weird to me that since narratives don’t need to have an inch a truth to be constructed. Narratives can be fabricated from made up atoms if need be . If crackpots wants to believe they’re being prosecuted , they’ll do it anyway. The ammunition you fear you’ll give them is one they already possess if they’re already too far gone.

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