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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 stjohnswarts »

zodzedzi wrote: post #69

I use DDG as my default search engine, along with NoScript in the browser. Often when I visit a new website, I peruse the (long) list of domains that the site is trying to pull javascripts from. I keep most of those source sites in UNTRUSTED status (including some of the big names in search/ads/etc). But I've always had DDG in the TRUSTED category because I had only seen its javascript before on the main DDG website.…

Can you give us a list (or partial list) of sites that are pulling scripts from duckduckgo? We can look at what they're trying to do.

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Post by gigglesupstairs »

miloignis wrote: post #60
babypuncher wrote: post #27

What is with this blogspam? YouTube-DL comes up just fine in search results ( https://duckduckgo.com/?q=youtube-dl&t=h_&ia=web ). So does Pirate Bay ( https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pirate+bay&t=h_&ia=web ). The headline is outright false.

The YouTube-DL website notably does not come up in those search results, it's their GitHub page that does. The website does appear in the sidebar, because it pulls the sidebar data from Wikipedia, and YouTube-DL's Wikipedia page does come up. Note that if you do a google search ( https://www.google.com/search?q=youtube-dl ) their website is the first result.

Both the website and the GitHub are top two results at my end, in India.

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Post by derevaunseraun »

Question: does anyone actually know what DDG does with user data? Like they market themselves as a "privacy respecting" search engine, but how much of this is truth?

I'd imagine there's good money in convincing people they have privacy because then they'll provide more interesting data.

Has the company ever been audited? Why should they be trusted to not compromise user privacy? Imo at least Google is honest: you know when you use their products as intended you have no privacy, and they don't try to hide this

Edit: since DDG isn't open source like searx, how do we know there is ANY truth to their marketing claims?

Edit: Just for accuracy, the browser extensions are open source. But as far as I know, the actual search engine isn't

Edit: They made over 100 million in 2020. They clearly can (and should) get an independent audit. It's shocking that they haven't had a single audit. Even startpage has

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Post by probably_wrong »

cpach wrote: post #33

I don’t condone the actions of the Russian government; however: If you want better results from pirate sites, try Yandex.com. Quite good for finding torrents.

I used to be able to find MP3s with Google, until one day it simply stopped working. Then I moved to Baidu, which worked for a while. I now use DDG to find movies, and yet looks like the curtain may be closing on that one too.

I fear it might only be a matter of time before Yandex stops working too.

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Post by gigglesupstairs »

thematrixturtle wrote: post #41
Vladimof wrote: post #7

Quoted post unavailable.

Google pushed the envelope on how silly the name for a major company can be, but DuckDuckGo is unlikely to ever hit mass market success with that name. (Or, more importantly, the current implementation.)

It also owns www.duck.com. Not sure why they’re still sticking with DuckDuckGo.

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Post by codedokode »

Jerry2 wrote: post #56
cpach wrote: post #33

I don’t condone the actions of the Russian government; however: If you want better results from pirate sites, try Yandex.com. Quite good for finding torrents.

> Quite good for finding torrents. That's because there's no DMCA law there and they're not taking down thousands upon thousands of pages like Google is forced to do every day. [1] [1] https://www.lumendatabase.org/

Yandex has an agreement with copyright holders and removes sites with pirated content from results. But those are Russian copyright holders and they mostly care about content in Russian.

Also Yandex removes sites that are banned in Russia, for example BBC in Russian or Navalny's site.

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Post by z3c0 »

zodzedzi wrote: post #69

I use DDG as my default search engine, along with NoScript in the browser. Often when I visit a new website, I peruse the (long) list of domains that the site is trying to pull javascripts from. I keep most of those source sites in UNTRUSTED status (including some of the big names in search/ads/etc). But I've always had DDG in the TRUSTED category because I had only seen its javascript before on the main DDG website.…

> Unfortunately NoScript has a limitation that you can't tell it to "only TRUST javascript from example.com when I'm visiting example.com"

I was under the impression that the custom option allowed this. Am I misunderstanding the point of this option?

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