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[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

What does it say? I'm behind a 2x5 minute ad wall. :'(

[–]useless_aether[S] 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

i zoned out at one point, but this is about it:

  1. ddg funds leftist orgs

  2. it entered a consortium trying to get rid of 'hate speech' and 'fake news' with microsoft, google, facebook, reddit and github, led by tim berners lee.

  3. twitter ceo and www foundation ceo are also involved

  4. qwant.com is a good search engine

[–]Chipit 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

What? No!! DDG was my search of choice. Jesus, there's nowhere safe.

[–]Vigte 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Startpage.com is the only other one I can think of - I heard about it from some "caveman diet" guest on some podcast...

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thank you!!! <3

[–]Myrkskog 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

That's a curious accent she has.

[–]MuricaPersonified 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's like part Minnesotan, part Cockney.

[–]macadoum 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Qwant is not an company, it's a french and european public funded entity which apply severe results cencorship.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

So where do we turn to? Any ideas?

[–]macadoum 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The problem is what each time a tech company (here a search engine) grows, censorship grow with it, in the hope of attracting more people. These days, I use mojeek

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Sounds good. Do you have the %s url for it?

[–]DffrntDrmmr 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

First off, that perfectly-centered mole below her throat is distracting.

Beyond that, she's obviously a kook. "Deep state, blah, blah, blah."

Nothing wrong with Duck Duck Go participating in a consortium along with other notable tech companies. When her alarmist video generated criticism it seems to have become personal to her.

Her attack on Duck Duck Go is unwarranted.

[–]useless_aether[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

notable tech companies

== cancer

[–]DffrntDrmmr 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That large, successful companies like Microsoft, Google and even Duck Duck Go evolved is indicative of a vibrant economy, and were inevitable.

That consortium is led by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web in 1989.

He is the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a Web standards organization founded in 1994 which develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. He is a Director of the World Wide Web Foundation which was launched in 2009 to coordinate efforts to further the potential of the Web to benefit humanity.

[–]useless_aether[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

classic corporate doublespeak. the w3c sold out many years ago and together with tim b lee is known to be pushing drm into web standards. the reason the eff resigned from the w3c. they used to be cool back in the '90s tho.

[–]Vortex 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I'm still using list of links from other sites - like BBS system, but it's web. Need porn? Need underground palces? Need fresh content? No popular search site can help you.

[–]useless_aether[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

back it up by sharing it with others?

[–]Vortex 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

When they actually ask me for it. You know how it happens.

[–]KoriKori 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I thought this site was further away from right wing bullshit.

[–]useless_aether[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

there is no doubt silicon valley is a globalist fifth column, that censors, spies at americans and is in general against conservative, western values and institutions.

and ddg is using amazon web services. if nothing else, that in itself is enough to be alarmed

[–]KoriKori 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

lmao, is that why they lobby republicans?

[–]useless_aether[S] 2 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

corruption and blackmail spans the political spectrum. think of mossad backed epstein using pedophilia on the corruptible members of the elites ... but that was only for high value targets. for the rest of us, as i said, silicon valley is all about finding our weak spots, stored in 'big data' and using ai algos to rake thru it all for furthering a globalist agenda.

data is the new oil. condolezza rice came from exxon and left to dropbox

[–]KoriKori 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Okay, boomer, I don't subscribe to consp theories

[–]useless_aether[S] 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

okay npc, i don't subscribe to msm narratives

[–]Tiwaking 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

DuckDuckGo was never good. It was always evil. I thought everyone knew that?

[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I sure don't. Which search engine is good though? Dogpile?

[–]useless_aether[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

i have these:

searx.me

http://search.mkf2sbzzzllepeva.onion/

search.privacytools.io

lite.qwant.com

startpage

https://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion/ <- and ddg

[–]MuricaPersonified 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Startpage pays google licensing. Qwant is eurotrash censorship. Searx is alright and open source as well; search.privacytools is just a custom build of Searx.

I'll go ahead and toss yandex.com out there since your list is effectively just one now.

[–]DffrntDrmmr 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ah, yes, Yandex, Russia's biggest tech firm that just last week announced that it would restructure its corporate governance to grant the Russian government a greater say in its operations.

[–]swordofdamocles42 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

so all we need is a search engine that is uncensored and we will win. :D if we can also blacklist the usual suspects even better.