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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 Shadonototra »

lolinder wrote: post #40
barnabee wrote: post #26

I don’t need these results but I don’t want to support this behaviour/trend. Can anyone recommend a decent non-Google alternative.

I've been using Kagi ( https://kagi.com ) for a few months and it's been great. It's free while in beta but will be funded by subscription fees afterward. The killer feature for me is the ability to up-rank and down-rank sites in my personal results, which has been really helpful for curating my tech-related searches. It allows me to quickly find high-quality docs and eliminate the garbage.

sounds like an AD

kagi? are you willing to repeat the same mistakes?

promoting unknown proprietary software, as if it was Moses, yet again

very suspicious, is kagi made by the people who operate DDG? or it's totally "trustable" set of people?

> The killer feature for me is the ability to up-rank and down-rank sites in my personal results

how does that work? is that feature tracked by kagi? are they using it to train a ML model?

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

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Post by astrobe_ »

antiframe wrote: post #240
colordrops wrote: post #236

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I'm gonna use a biased engine why use a shit one like DDG?

Which search engines are not "shit" in your estimation?

Maybe it's time to use those search bookmarklets again. When I think about it, many times I already know where the answer could be.

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Post by licebmi__at__ »

hntaw012 wrote: post #356
TobyTheDog123 wrote: post #268

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it all comes down to the type of curation being done and if the choices are made out of objectivity of subjectivity. Like prioritizing a legitimate website over a scam website isn't punishing the scam website because of a controversial opinion or the search engine operator didn't like the content, it's because the website is objectively a scam, it's easy to objectively identify it as such, and everyone agrees…

This kind of thinking is exactly why the Russian misinformation campaigns have been extremely successful (especially in Russia). Russia doesn't care about the individual outlets as long as they help spread lies, no matter how absurd or obvious. This doesn't have to be done as carefully or subtly as the western world seems to think. Russia is discrediting truth as a concept entirely, the narrative being "we are obviou…

"Manufacturing consent" was written in 1988. Did Russia's campaign against the truth was already happening?

When I was growing up, certainly before even RT existed, it was common knowledge that journalist will cover the events according to their own (or bosses) interests. IME (not russian, but also not american), the idea of objective reporting is the anomaly.

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

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Post by srg0 »

t0bia_s wrote: post #106
zagrebian wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If Duck really collects user data, the moment this is found out, they’re dead, so for that reason alone, they probably don’t do it. The alternative is that they’re betting everything on nobody ever finding out which sounds crazy.

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

How is kagi more private? It requires an account to use, and it’s going to be a paid service. So it always has a strong user ID associated with every query. Whether it is not stored and not processed cannot be verified. It’s the same story about trust.
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