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The guy in the slashdot comments complaining about the duckduckgo toolbar warning against his site is amusing. His legit domain has a warning on it because form

by drats 16y ago

The guy in the slashdot comments complaining about the duckduckgo toolbar warning against his site is amusing. His legit domain has a warning on it because formerly it was parked (or perhaps worse, he doesn't say) and he refuses to go through any process to get this undone because he thinks the practice should be stopped. Well I think that's the main reason I use DDG sometimes, the basic index is worse than google, it's slower, but they filter out a whole lot of the SEO blogspam crap and that improves many of their results vastly (along with the bang domain specific syntax). Google should do this too, or at least provide an option. I don't ever want to see a link spam, expertsexchange (yes I know scroll down, I don't care) type site again. Just like I don't ever see spam in my inbox, there is no difference to me between search engine spam and email spam. Both are cognitive overload caused by opportunists. I worry about DDG's eventual revenue model though. As I still use google a fair bit and so paying for DDG would require a few more features. A DDG/stackoverflow/email/linode-like slice big enough for your irssi sessions could be rolled into a service with a focus on privacy/spamblocking and adblocking I think many would pay for.

epi0Bauqu 16y ago
Just to clarify, which I also did on /. & reddit, that toolbar is no longer offered. I think you're right about what happened though. It had been identified as parked and then went unparked before the bot had a chance to get there. It would have been (and probably has by now) removed automatically. The toolbar never asserted it was evil, just that it might be "useless." His users extrapolated the rest. And if he had emailed, it could have been removed quickly.
someperson 16y ago
w1ntermute 16y ago
> A DDG/stackoverflow/email/linode-like slice big enough for your irssi sessions could be rolled into a service with a focus on privacy/spamblocking and adblocking I think many would pay for. I'm not sure I fully understand what you mean. Are you suggesting renting out VPS's that provide DDG/SO/email access over an encrypted line, so your ISP wouldn't be able to spy on you?
- drats 16y ago
  Basically yes, it's just a bundle of the kinds of things a hacker type would like - both in terms of privacy and in terms of information customisation. So someone pays $5 a month, they have their https to a no-advertising DDG, an email address with them, an optional VPN link (cost more? depends on the economics) and jabber/irc permanently connected even when offline (available ram measured in 10s of MBs not 100s). So all your messages, searches, and browsing is nicely handled, advert and spam free. For people who don't want to pay, perhaps they could pay with tokens/karma from the stackoverflow-like part of the site to generate a helpful community. The key is costing less than the money (AND the trouble) of doing the same thing through a VPS for yourself. However, I see lots of people here who in their younger days were using more raw versions of linux but these days they use Ubuntu because they realise they haven't got their whole life to be fiddling with things that should be just working. I've heard similar discussions elsewhere about taking a sheevaplug-like approach to making a product for people to have at home that does this. Goodluck to anyone who can pull it off, I will be a customer.

by drats 16y ago

epi0Bauqu 16y ago

Just to clarify, which I also did on /. & reddit, that toolbar is no longer offered. I think you're right about what happened though. It had been identified as parked and then went unparked before the bot had a chance to get there. It would have been (and probably has by now) removed automatically. The toolbar never asserted it was evil, just that it might be "useless." His users extrapolated the rest. And if he had emailed, it could have been removed quickly.

someperson 16y ago

w1ntermute 16y ago

> A DDG/stackoverflow/email/linode-like slice big enough for your irssi sessions could be rolled into a service with a focus on privacy/spamblocking and adblocking I think many would pay for. I'm not sure I fully understand what you mean. Are you suggesting renting out VPS's that provide DDG/SO/email access over an encrypted line, so your ISP wouldn't be able to spy on you?

drats 16y ago
Basically yes, it's just a bundle of the kinds of things a hacker type would like - both in terms of privacy and in terms of information customisation. So someone pays $5 a month, they have their https to a no-advertising DDG, an email address with them, an optional VPN link (cost more? depends on the economics) and jabber/irc permanently connected even when offline (available ram measured in 10s of MBs not 100s). So all your messages, searches, and browsing is nicely handled, advert and spam free. For people who don't want to pay, perhaps they could pay with tokens/karma from the stackoverflow-like part of the site to generate a helpful community. The key is costing less than the money (AND the trouble) of doing the same thing through a VPS for yourself. However, I see lots of people here who in their younger days were using more raw versions of linux but these days they use Ubuntu because they realise they haven't got their whole life to be fiddling with things that should be just working. I've heard similar discussions elsewhere about taking a sheevaplug-like approach to making a product for people to have at home that does this. Goodluck to anyone who can pull it off, I will be a customer.