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Poll: Which search engine do you primarily use?
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
While the results could sometimes be more relevant, being a "hipster" is by far not the reason many people use DDG. I originally switched because I cared for my privacy, but I stayed for the awesome features, like the bangs and often insanely helpful instant-results (I can't count the number of times my queries were answered without clicking even a single link).
the thing is that noone really cares about you enough for you to worry about your privacy. Hell, even celebrities don't get their Google search histories published in Tmz...so you have nothing to worry about. And if you are planning to do something illegal, then using a different search engine won't help you one bit
If find it downright disgusting that you imply caring for privacy is in any way related to pursuing criminal activity. I seriously hope you aren't attempting the "if you have nothing to hide" rhetoric. That fallacy has been dismantled into oblivion, and everyone who uses it should be laughed out of the building, never to be taken serious again.
Let me present my point either way: I simply do not want anyone, be it corporation or government, to have aggregated records of my habits, behavior and interests, because I find this to be discomforting and highly dangerous. Information is a powerful weapon in the wrong hands, and nothing guarantees that these data aggregations were, are or will be safe. I do not care about it being published - I care about it the fact that it exists in the first place.
I do not even know how this is an issue of who cares. Apparently, many people care, and privacy is a fundamental (constitutionally granted) right in many western countries, at least on paper. Just because you don't think it matters doesn't mean it isn't an issue for more than enough people.
Re: Poll: Which search engine do you primarily use?
#24i use bing because they basically give you money to use it. (bing rewards -> amazon gift cards -> weeeee). It works out to like 2.50 a month at most, so it's only worth it for penny pinchers, buuuuuuuuut, for just switching search engines, money is money is money (rewards is giftcards is useless-shit-i-would-have-spent-money-on).