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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 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.…
uMatrix (which I'm using in desktop Firefox) works exactly like this. Plus it allows you to forbid/allow cookies, styles, images, scripts, media, XHR, and iframes separately (for each origin/domain).
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.…
Anecdotal of course, but I've been seeing more and more DDG billboards. Those things aren't cheap, and my trust in them has declined the more I see them advertise in the traditional market.
Just switched. Lets see how well brave search works out :)
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.
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Lawrence Lessig
I forgot about that! What a missed opportunity that was for this country. He's exactly the sort of person we need to see more of in politics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lessig_2016_president...
Which is broadly more important than copyright reform…and broadly Americans don’t seem to particularly care about either of them all that much.
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 kno…
This isn't true. Google's privacy policy is not lax as you suggest it is.
I suspect this is largely due to DDG using Bing under the hood, which has led to similar weirdness in the past, eg all major porn sites disappearing from the results in Singapore (while Google still showed them, mind you!). Still super disappointing though, and yet another reason why trying to build a better search engine on top of someone else's tech is a non-starter.
Having worked on Google's indexing system, I can't imagine how much it would cost to write all of the crawling and indexing code from scratch, and then run it on over the visible web. You need to bootstrap somehow form an existing index if you want to get anywhere in any reasonable time. If there's a market for alternative search engines out there, AWS is already serving so much of the web that Amazon should really p…
Amazon is a weirdly plausible competitor to Google. They have a surprisingly robust ad business, and obviously AWS.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/03/amazon-has-a-31-billion-a-ye...