DuckDuckGo CEO announces they will begin boosting propaganda to support the war against Russia

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[–]One_Jack_MoveLibertarian Party 18 insightful - 5 fun18 insightful - 4 fun19 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

Russia is asshole but fuck DDG, just do your job. Never did like them, they donate to lefty causes and they only index other (google, bing) search results.

There are so many other good search sites out there, and they have shorter URLs ffs.

[–]MidWestDutchy 9 insightful - 4 fun9 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 4 fun -  (14 children)

Oh my fuck. Someone drop new search engine suggestions please.

[–]BravoVictor[S] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

I've been using Qwant for a while now. Seems ok. https://www.qwant.com

And of course, there's the Russian https://yandex.com, if you're curious what those "evil" Russkies see. Haven't used it much though.

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

I'm using these along with the Brave search engine.

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

I think Brave is the best alternative right now.

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

Qwant has been working well for me, too.

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

I use Brave, Bing and I've just started using Ecosia.

I tried using Yandex but a lot of the results come up in Russian, which I don't speak.

[–]Cosmo3k 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Never too late to learn, товагищ!

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

Might as well I suppose.

[–]LarrySwinger2Voluntaryist 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I use Brave Search because it's the only that gives decent results hassle-free to Tor users. Google still provides the best results for normie topics, and acceptable ways of accessing them are Startpage, Searx, and GPrivate. Although those may not be relevant if you're seeking to boycott companies. There's also Seeks (which is different from Searx) and YaCy, but you have to set them up by yourself. Another good metasearch engine is Dogpile.

[–]One_Jack_MoveLibertarian Party 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

Others have suggested some good ones. Here are the ones that I believe actually index individual web pages, rather than meta-search others:

These places search privately, but they are probably meta-searchers:

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

    Thank you for clarifying!

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

    YaCy is back on the menu boys!

    [–]In-the-clouds 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I currently use fireball which claims to be anonymous, which I don't even care much about since really nothing on the internet is anonymous, but I want uncensored results.

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

    Uh... Yandex

    [–][deleted] 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    (((duckduckgo)))

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

    I noticed the CEO's surname.

    [–]fschmidt 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

    https://yandex.com/

    [–]neomarxist_bullshit 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

    Yeah, but that's where you'll get Russian propaganda instead

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

    I can't read russian

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

    Russia Today, TASS and other outlets are in English too. Who knows whether the search engine won't "prefer" certain sites

    [–]CarbonDioxideHead 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Name me one time when the people censoring information were the good guys.

    What a shame.

    Always trusted duckduckgo to show me what our Google overlords would censor and hide from us, but seeing as they're jumping on that bandwagon too, I'll use another search engine.

    Probably Searx or gigablast.

    [–]package 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    Remember when companies just had products to sell and didn't think of themselves as some pantheon of benevolent gods shielding the commoners from the dangers of the world

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

    Pepperidge Farm remembers

    [–]fatman 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Anyone who ever used DDG is an idiot!

    It has been widely known that the founder's previous company was based around collecting and selling personal information.

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      [–]In-the-clouds 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

      I can't get any search text input to come up on my mobile phone. Maybe they don't support older browser versions?

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        [–]In-the-clouds 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

        OK. In case anyone's curious, this is what searx.space looks like on my phone:

        https://i.imgur.com/PTaCxeT.png

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          [–]In-the-clouds 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

          That works.... thank you! I like the options to load the cached page or to use a proxy.

          [–]JasonCarswellVoluntaryist 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

          Shame.

          [–]filbs111 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

          "We've been rolling out search updates that up-rank non-Russian disinformation."

          [–]neomarxist_bullshit 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

          war against Russia

          alright then

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

          That’s pretty much what it is. Neoconservatives and neoliberals are mad at Russia for doing to Ukraine what America and Britain have done to Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and other countries.

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

          So you are talking about a war of words, not an actual war that's happening in Ukraine

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

          DDG just committed suicide.

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

          Fuck all of this. I'm headed back to IRC and BBS.

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

          All modern scum are the same. Only those who reject modern culture can be trusted.

          [–]hfxB0oyAPirate Party 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

          Fuck's sakes, that's my primary search engine!

          Oh well, off to Brave search, I suppose. Or maybe Startpage. Anyone have any opinions on them?

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

          I’ve just started using Brave search, so I can’t tell. But if I am going to be using a censorious search engine, I might as well use Google or Bing, because at least when I’m looking for information on shops and services in my local area, those two engines are accurate.

          [–]Id123456789 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

          Jesus, is there any part of the internet infrastructure that hasnt been bought out by Jews at this point? As a practical matter you just cant trust anything run or owned by them, even if they claim to be a free speech alternative it never lasts or turns out to be a honey pot or controlled competition meant to prevent viable long term alternatives.

          They've pretty well ruined their brand the last few years. No one in their right mind will ever trust them anymore. Not the Russians. Not the Chinese. And not anyone in the west who hasnt been lobotomized by their never ending propaganda and gaslighting.

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

          😮😡 Fuck Youuu DDG, guess I'm gonna have to try some of these alternatives.....

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

          Why not label something as Russian disinformation, and allow people to make up their mind.

          I have been reading all the stories. I have a pretty good idea of what’s going on.

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

          https://www.privacytools.io/#search - Everything but DDG

          Startpage is good too.

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

          Got rid of DDG. I use Brave on my brave browser, Ecosia for my Safari browser and Bing for my Opera browser. Now Bing is controlled by Microsoft, at least the results are more accurate, at least for my country.

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

          why are they forcing me to use yandex?

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

            Actually many leftists side with Russia due to communist ties.

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

            Used to, way back in the Soviet days.

            Now most leftists hate Russia because they're not communists.

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

            I'm confused. Is the far right talking point currently that Russia is the good guy?

            We destroyed millions of lives by shutting down our economies to stop people from contracting a disease they statistically had no risk of being harmed from.

            We've set our own cities on fire and called it peaceful protest.

            We've invaded dozens of countries, killing hundreds of thousands of people.

            We just got out of a trillion dollar disaster in Afghanistan.

            We're still occupying Iraq, despite the Iraqis wanting out. Tens of thousands of civilians died in the first two weeks of the US invasion in 2003. But now we're supposed to be outraged over a Russian invasion every foreign policy expert predicted would happen as a result of our actions to antagonize Russia? And in defense of a Ukrainian government that's horribly corrupt and censoring it's own internal political opposition?

            Do you guys have to automatically take the opposite position of the left on every single issue?

            When they've proven they're amoral psychopaths who would gladly send thousands of American troops to their deaths to defend corporate America's business interests, yes, it's a safe default position to take. But to be fair, a few neo-cons on the right to are just as bad. Russia may not be the good guys, but they're better than us in many ways. As a people, we're committing slow suicide, and Russia doesn't want to be under our heel when that happens, and I don't blame them.

            Foreign policy experts predicted decades ago that if the US meddled in Ukraine and pushed them to join NATO, Russia would invade. What's happening now isn't a surprise. Our government just doesn't give a shit about Ukrainians, and was willing to risk every last Ukrainian life if it meant taking another chess piece away from Russia. That would be life if Russia setup a pro-Moscow puppet state in Mexico, and began arming it. We'd be invading Mexico yesterday.

            Why are we supposed to hate Russia? Or Syria? Or Iraq? Or Libya? Why are our troops supposed to die in those countries? Why are we now supposed to Russiaphobic bigots overnight?

            I'm not saying I agree with the censorship, but the words "war against Russia" seem to be derived from a single cell organism level of intelligence

            Do you always assume those who disagree with you are idiots? That speaks more to your own narcissism than to any intelligence. I'm tired of being an NPC who blindly hates whoever the tv tells me to hate.

            We've killed Russia troops in Syria. We've been funding Ukrainian Nazis to help them butcher Russia separatists in Donbass (even though some Congressmen tried to cut funding to it). We're now engaging in economic warfare and are applying more sanctions against Russia than to any country in recent history. Unfortunately, it looks like it'll end up hurting us more than Russia.

            Our corrupt rulers have been engaged in a war against Russia for quite some time, and they desperately need you to blindly hate Russia in order to continue the war.

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

            I don't disagree with much of what you said. And no, I don't assume that everyone I disagree with is an idiot. What makes it idiotic to me is when people are anything besides completely against Russia when they are killing civilians. I'm against what Russia is doing and I'm also against what the US has done. I can't think of any reason it'd ever be cool to kill a bunch of innocent civilians. It's as simple as that for me.