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http://duckduckgo.com/l/?kh=-1&uddg=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dmv.org... (every time you click on a search result you actually click on a link like this,which redirects you to the actual page)
Is it just for pagerank?
And as far as browser is concerned, I would recommend go with Firefox vs Google or Safari. Mozilla is a non profit and I feel I can trust it the most.
I take it you mean Firefox over Chrome or Safari? (I agree. The only thing I use Chrome for is Facebook)
if the NSA is intercepting the communications, why would switching sites matter?
1. The NSA isn't the only threat to privacy on the net. 2. DDG is SSL, so there's some hope that the traffic is not visible to a passive observer, even the NSA.
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I would prefer if someone else did it. Not because I do not trust DDG, but because I don't like the idea of one company providing everything (or too much). Why step into the footsteps of the dinosaurs?
Fair enough. > Why step into the footsteps of the dinosaurs? I'd think adding E2EE to email would be like what pagerank did to the search engine. Why build from the ground up when you can build on the shoulders of the giants?
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> They have access to IP+time, your search query, and > cookies for correlation to other requests. It's > valuable information Valuable for blackmail, but not really useful for anything else; the commercial value of information rapidly degrades over time. Knowing I want to buy a new fridge today is very valuable, knowing I wanted to buy one last month is nearly worthless. > IP+time is enough to get your personal iden…
I love targeted advertising because it is so blatantly obvious and hilariously over-optimistic. I search for a lot of random crap with more curiosity than intent to buy. I looked up the price for several windmills , the late 19th/early 20th century style, (~$1000, by the way). For weeks or months afterwards, I saw windmill ads on a sizable fraction of the websites I visited. To be fair, it's far more likely that I am…
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> Also, DDG's results compared to a year ago are night-and-day. Still looks 2nd rate. I replicated one of my last searches (learning rails): rails find if element is in array First hit on google is the stackexchange answer with .include? (which I was spacing-out on) DDG yields the Array docs, which is correct but is a helluva lot of info when I'm looking for a concise answer.
http://www.samuru.com is better for concise answers.
Now you could argue that I should have omitted "find", and there was a time where that was how search engines were used, but the fact that google got the semantics right is why it is first rate.
An observation: Ghostery blocked 22 trackers on this article. Does it somehow make tracking my every move online okay if it's done for profit? EDIT: phrasing.
We really need something better than having these MASSIVE amounts of callouts. It's like those pictures of Internet Explorer totally taken over by toolbars, except it's a different set on every single site on the web. Bah!