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What makes DuckDuckGo legit?
| Its shit, I would rather use Qwant (even though its french surveillance shit too)
| no idea, i've been using duckduckgo for awhile now but people have been telling me to switch.
I do use alternatives such as startpage and searx in other devices but so far, everything i've found or been given about duckduckgo has been second hand, unsubstantiated, or going back to the owner's shady past without any proof of actual wrongdoing.
So either people just have a bad taste in their mouth, or the owner of DDG is just *very* good at hiding shit.
| What do you mean shady past
| Don't use DDG it is a honeypot, usea searx or qwant
| For the love of God, people, substantiate your claims
| >>403778 Dude. We just want something more substantial than "ddg=evil", and you're not helping your claim with stuff like this.
| For everyone's convenience, i dug up an old thread here linking to a website which goes into depth with multiple popular services, which it claims are spyware.
People were skeptical of the website, since the author's concept of what is and is not spyware seemed pretty broad, but the information wasn't that bad.
Here's what he had to say about DuckDuckGo, along with some links.
https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/
https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/duckduckgo.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20150724045015/https://archive.is/qntuk
Old link to thread:
https://dangeru.us/tech/thread/374157
Remember, you don't need to believe everything you hear or read, but put your head to the pavement and listen anyway. It doesn't hurt.
As for this mod, I'll be continuing to use DDG for now, but I may be looking into transitioning to alternatives soon.
| Nota Bene, regarding the web archive link:
It looks like the conversation continues in the comments section, with some back and forth between the writer of the article and the CEO of DDG. The article makes it seem like the staff at DDG were messing with him, but the comments discussion that occurs below puts it in a different light... so we're really back to square one as far as who to believe.
Do what you think is best for you, but know as much as you can.
| Also, the author seems to think that the E.U. would somehow make their operations more safe- well, that still depends on the country, given that the Five Eyes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
And Nine Eyes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes#Other_international_cooperatives
Are a thing...
| Mfw 14 eyes.
| From the spyware article:
>Even though, it's worth noting that DuckDuckGo offers an onion domain... so you don't need to trust it to use it as long as you acess it through TOR.
This is part of the reason the author is on the fence. All he was able to find wasn't very different from what we've found- basically, no hard evidence of wrongdoing.
| >>403090
before he created DDG, the guy ran a site that collected user data and resold it. Like that was the entire point of the site, not even masquerading as a real service.
| I've thought about running my own serex instance but it doesn't really help privacy if I'm the only one who uses it does it
| This is a TLDR, but a pretty comprehensive overview of DuckDuckGo versus Startpage:
http://securityspread.com/2016/10/24/duckduckgo-startpage-2016-update/
| >>404232 turns out it supports using a socks proxy, so I could just run it through a VPN/tor and be fine
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| >it's US-based
>no warrant canary
>founder has a suspicious past
>shills everywhere around social medias and reddit
i've been checking /r/degoogle which is a dead subreddit about getting rid of google. the post had more votes than the ones that were posted 1 day ago.
look how that account started posting ddg memes all of a sudden. do you think people would make memes of a search engine as if it was the witcher 3? i think not. reddit is just a echo chamber after all.