DDG for personal devices, Google for work. Don't care if they track my stackoverflow results.
DuckDuckGo Is Now a Default Search Engine Option on Android in the EU
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Re: DuckDuckGo Is Now a Default Search Engine Option on Android in the EU
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
> but it's interesting to see that many things are not censored away in comparison to Bing and Google (political correctness, copyright, nsfw etc. etc.). I am not aware that there is a censorship of things that are deemed 'politically incorrect' by either bing or google, and Yandex does comply with European copyright law and other EU legislation like the right-to-be-forgotten.
As an illusory example only, and definitely not as an endorsement, and chosen only because it is the extremes of acceptable speach that are most likely to be censured; consider these search results for "Daily Stormer" https://www.google.com/search?q=daily+stormer&oq=daily+storm... https://duckduckgo.com/?q=daily+stormer DDG provides the link to the site as their first result; Google provides links to information abou…
The first thing I see on DDG is the Wikipedia page describing their site. They must be reading this.
Re: DuckDuckGo Is Now a Default Search Engine Option on Android in the EU
#73The past tense of DuckDuckGo is DuckDuckWent, as in "I DuckDuckWent my name and discovered my high school yearbook has been digitized."
Re: DuckDuckGo Is Now a Default Search Engine Option on Android in the EU
#74How is Apple getting away with iOS? Unlike Android, you cannot cannot change the default browser, maps, messaging apps or anything.
Google makes money off of google search and it's not much of a stretch that they're abusing their market power to strong-arm users of one service of theirs (Android) into using another (search). Meanwhile Apple does not profit from their stock apps -- not directly, at least.
Re: DuckDuckGo Is Now a Default Search Engine Option on Android in the EU
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
My take is it's a consequence of their vertical integration. Maybe they saw all along, by not even allowing the option to change, there's no way they could be forced to present a rolodex of possible choices - since there's only one choice that works. You always had the choice with Android, it just had a default. That didn't smell good to regulators in the EU, and they saw an easy option out of that. Telling Apple to…
> sad that the better approach is getting hit by the regulation stick. It’s not sad, it just doesn’t make sense. This isn’t logical - Apple should be getting hit worse for being more restrictive
Most devices are that restrictive. It's not like you buy an oven and you get to install Linux on it.
Re: DuckDuckGo Is Now a Default Search Engine Option on Android in the EU
#76Something that doesn't sit well with me about DuckDuckGo is their hidden use of affiliate links to Amazon and eBay. Fundamentally search engines are vulnerable to predatory business models. Privacy is one issue. Providing financially motivated information is another. To my knowledge (would love to hear more), Google is pretty up front about what is an ad and what isn't while DuckDuckGo covertly sells you to Amazon when you might want to buy something.
While DuckDuckGo seems to be enjoying some halo effect in some communities at the moment (Google once enjoyed a similar glow), I think that general skepticism is probably a healthy orientation toward search engines.
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#77It's somehow funny to see that Bing search results are so successful when packaged with privacy in mind into DuckDuckGo. I don't like bing search results, especially for Europe. They are just bad for many local things. The only other search engine beside Google which is interesting and surprising for me is maybe Yandex. It's also not as good as Google in (most of) Europe but it's interesting to see that many things a…
Notice that there are entirely no NSFW images on DDG. This is a big hole right where content should be, and basically voids all claims to anti-censorship street cred.
I assume you’ve got Safe Search turned on? There’s three options: on (default), moderate or off.
Re: DuckDuckGo Is Now a Default Search Engine Option on Android in the EU
#78It's somehow funny to see that Bing search results are so successful when packaged with privacy in mind into DuckDuckGo. I don't like bing search results, especially for Europe. They are just bad for many local things. The only other search engine beside Google which is interesting and surprising for me is maybe Yandex. It's also not as good as Google in (most of) Europe but it's interesting to see that many things a…
Notice that there are entirely no NSFW images on DDG. This is a big hole right where content should be, and basically voids all claims to anti-censorship street cred.
If anything, DDG is a bit too quick to suggest NSFW results if you don't have the NSFW filter on max.
Re: DuckDuckGo Is Now a Default Search Engine Option on Android in the EU
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
As an illusory example only, and definitely not as an endorsement, and chosen only because it is the extremes of acceptable speach that are most likely to be censured; consider these search results for "Daily Stormer" https://www.google.com/search?q=daily+stormer&oq=daily+storm... https://duckduckgo.com/?q=daily+stormer DDG provides the link to the site as their first result; Google provides links to information abou…
A stark difference. Is Google on the record about what their view is on this sort of thing? I suppose the two scenarios that leap to mind are (1) Google is social engineering or (2) they have good reason to believe that nobody searching for the Daily Stormer actually wants to see the website. It'd be interesting to know if there is a 3rd.
Maybe they have an AI that ingests thinkpieces and twitter feeds lambasting them for insufficient censorship, and based on the strength of sentiment and number of retweets apply additional censorship to the specific examples listed, with the cost function being something like f(likelihood_of_negative_public_opinion) + g(impact_on_search_quality).
If I were to do this I'd allow penalized results to resurface from time to time, and leave it up if nobody tweets too hard.
Re: DuckDuckGo Is Now a Default Search Engine Option on Android in the EU
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Notice that there are entirely no NSFW images on DDG. This is a big hole right where content should be, and basically voids all claims to anti-censorship street cred.
I assume you’ve got Safe Search turned on? There’s three options: on (default), moderate or off.
There was a period some time ago when image searches are always SFW even with safe search off. I guess this is no longer the case (checked just now).