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Twitter CEO Endorses DuckDuckGo

535 points by stopads 7y ago

sojmq 7y ago
gud 4 him
bemeurer 7y ago
Nice endorseyment
flurdy 7y ago
Duckduckgo is great. But also because the easy !g !gi !tw shortcuts to search in google or twitter as well. Surprised to find lately that a lot of my searches only return relevant results in a twitter search.
- LandR 7y ago
  Also w! for wiki. The bang commands are super useful.
  - ojosilva 7y ago
    That's a feature of most browsers location bar. Just assign a letter/string to any bookmark of your liking and voila! No need to depend on DDG and exclamation points for your quick searches. A few of my favorites include hn for HN's algolia, th for thesaurus, wes for Wikipedia in Spanish and d for... duck duck go.
    - flurdy 7y ago
      That is true. but my first search is always duckduckgo. Only if that doesn't tell me straight away to I go for a !bang search. The location bar now is filled with a ddg url so easier to just add ! to the search box of ddg. And as I switch machines, browsers, profiles, and privacy mode all day long the only ubuiqitous thing is that ddg is the default search engine. I don't use the !w shortcut as usually whatever/whomever I have searched for is in the info box on ddg's right-hand column and it usually has a wikipedia link if I need to get more detail.
- buboard 7y ago
  it's like using "reddit" on google to force it to be serious
- skinnymuch 7y ago
  Why can’t you use location bar in your browser?
handoff 7y ago
I guess twitter will not be acquired by google anytime soon
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ydb 7y ago
Yes @jack yes! Hopefully more high-profile thought leaders will enter the public discourse to advise on more sane, privacy-respecting alternatives. I'm glad I was relieved of hating @jack at least momentarily. :')
- gootik 7y ago
  May I ask why hate @jack ?
  - kgraves 7y ago
    Not OP but I agree, having hate for somebody you don't know is really unhealthy.
    - pstuart 7y ago
      Having hate is really unhealthy. Easier said than done...
  - pwython 7y ago
    Sacha Baron Cohen recently called out jack and the other "silicon six." https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/21/sacha-baron-cohen-rips-on-facebook-and-big-tech-for-sowing-hate.html https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/21/sacha-baron-cohen-rips-on-fa...
    - ehsankia 7y ago
      Don't get me wrong, I love his work, but I don't really understand why what he has to say about tech is any more relevant than any other celebrity. It's not like he has some deeper insider knowledge of the subject.
      - pwython 7y ago
        From the Anti-Defamation League: > Sacha Baron Cohen is the well-deserved recipient of ADL’s International Leadership Award, which goes to exceptional individuals who combine professional success with a profound personal commitment to community involvement and to crossing borders and barriers with a message of diversity and equal opportunity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymaWq5yZIYM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymaWq5yZIYM
stanislavb 7y ago
SaaSHub's CEO endorsed DuckDuckGo as well recently https://twitter.com/StanBright/status/1199114972707508225 https://twitter.com/StanBright/status/1199114972707508225
- kgraves 7y ago
  who?
  - corndoge 7y ago
    Himself. He's referring to himself, by title, in the third person.
    - GhettoMaestro 7y ago
      Cringe.
skuthus 7y ago
This is awesome - happy to see privacy oriented search become more popular. I think DuckDuckGo needs a better name though - Something more ubiquitous. Duck, maybe? Quack?
- dannylandau 7y ago
  my vote is for -- quackquackdoc
- krackers 7y ago
  There was a rant by some other HN user about how DDG owns "duck.com" yet refuses to just point it to a search page.
  - godelski 7y ago
    duck.com DOES redirect to duckduckgo.com. IIRC Google used to own duck.com and wouldn't redirect, but once DDG got ownership they redirected it.
    - krackers 7y ago
      Visiting the page incognito, you're hit with a modal dialogue that you have to dismiss before you can search.
      - godelski 7y ago
        This does not happen in FireFox. Are you suggesting Google is still playing dumb games?
        jobigoud 7y ago
        I can repro this in Firefox. Are you disabling Javascript?
        godelski 7y ago
tuldia 7y ago
Given the amount of M$ ads DDG has showing latelly does not surprises me they might be partnering with bing.
- __ka 7y ago
  DuckDuckGo is already partnering with Bing - that's where they get their results from.
- teh_klev 7y ago
  > M$ Hello, 1990's Slashdot called and would like its tired old '$' satire back.
  - harry8 7y ago
    M$ would like their tired old 1990s business practises back, oh wait they never left. Just like the M$ shorthand which we see less simply becuase we talk about them less. It's reputation they fully earned. You can write "Microsoft" in full whenever you like if you prefer too. I think it's pretty reasonable to casually express contempt at every opportunity for any business that puts money vastly further ahead of ethics than they need to. You can disgaree with that if you like too. Facebrick is the new M$. What do we have for Goog? "do no evil" with strickeout for more money? $GOOG?
    - teh_klev 7y ago
      My friend, I think you missed the sarcasm and possibly some satire in my comment.
- TimTheTinker 7y ago
  For more info: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/company/advertising-and-affiliates/ https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/company/ad...
  - tuldia 7y ago
    Search for: 1. "fix incorrect mayonese". 2. "fix incorrect lazagna" and compare with: 1. "fix incorrect mayonnaise". 2. "fix incorrect lasagna"
caiocaiocaio 7y ago
I would hate it if one of history's most notorious Nazi collaborators endorsed on of my projects.
- cameronbrown 7y ago
  You serious?
- ethelward 7y ago
  Yeah, @jack is definitely comparable to Laval, Qisling, or Kaminski for the title of ‶most notorious Nazi collaborator of History″...
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- Tade0 7y ago
  As somebody hailing from an area that used to be under occupation by the Nazis and thus having heard multiple first-hand accounts of how it transpired I assure you that's not how actual Nazi collaborators operated. Please don't dilute the meaning behind this expression.
- dang 7y ago
  Please don't do this here.
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buboard 7y ago
Searching google nowadays feels like searching an ad database. For me it isn't even a matter of privacy but about exclusion of 90% of the web out there. Bing is not bad either, nor is yandex. What else is there? Remember when google was like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8JT9QWA-eY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8JT9QWA-eY
- zo1 7y ago
  They also focus on the "buying" portion of the internet way too much. Either that, or 90% of the internet is revolved around buying shit.
__ka 7y ago
I have mixed feelings about this. If you recommend DuckDuckGo, Qwant, Ecosia you're essentially recommending Bing. Each of them have to show bing ads, forward the users' IPs as per Bing's terms of service (to fight ad fraud etc). Similarly, if you recommend StartPage, you're recommending Google. Same drill with ads. I like DuckDuckGo. But unless they build their own search - I think the fundamental problem has not been tackled. There is no good, independent, private search alternative. [Edit] I am not trying to single out DDG. There are a few replies that either demand for proof (rightfully) or suggest Bing is used only sometimes. I do not have conclusive proof, but have worked on search. Here's a couple of things for the curious: 1. Try to run this test: If you query "what is my ip" in duckduckgo (DDG), or any of the other ones I mentioned, you will notice in the description of one of the top results this IP: 207.46.13.147. It's a BingBot IP [0]. It's a good enough test to spot where results are coming from. 2. Open two browser windows side by side with DDG and Bing. Turn on results for the country you are in in DDG. Look attentively. Try image search. It is clear that DDG does some re-ranking based on its own, but it's very often the same results. [0] https://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/207.46.13.147 https://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/207.46.13.147
- iagovar 7y ago
  AFAIK qwant is using its own engine
- liambates 7y ago
  Aren't DuckDuckGo searches a mixture of Bing, Yahoo, Yandex and their own crawler? I don't know a great deal about their infrastructure and would love to learn more about it.
  - Rebelgecko 7y ago
    I don't know about the DDG searches, but IIRC Yahoo is just Bing now
  - mikeleeorg 7y ago
    This article is from 2017, but has some more technical detail behind DDG than other articles do: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/duckduckgo-anonymous-privacy https://www.wired.co.uk/article/duckduckgo-anonymous-privacy
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throwaway122378 7y ago
I call publicity stunt. Jack is doing just as much to censor free thought as is Google.
- xwowsersx 7y ago
  100%
- tash7oeb 7y ago
  I met Jack a number of years ago. He did not strike me as someone interested in stifling free speech. Although he was incredibly successful, even then, his values seemed to be high above those of most mortals. One of these values that he explicitly mentioned was free speech. Additionally, while discussing our accomplishments, he stated that he had an IQ of 155. My own is 160, which is above his, but he nonetheless seemed almost as intelligent as me, which I am certainly not used to.
gundmc 7y ago
Digital ad company CEO endorses competitor of rival digital ad company.
- xwowsersx 7y ago
  Haha, took the words right out of my mouth.
- chance_state 7y ago
  Twitter makes less than $3B/year on ads. Google makes $135B+. Are they really competitors?
  - Craighead 7y ago
    Is Tesla really a competitor to Mitsubishi?
  - rndgermandude 7y ago
    Yes, they are. Both have ads as their primary revenue stream. It does not matter if they are unequal in size, they still compete in the same space.
    - vishnu_ks 7y ago
      DuckDuckGo also makes money through ads.
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- leadingthenet 7y ago
  Digital ad company CEO endorses competitor that is also a digital ad company of rival digital ad company.
zokula 7y ago
It's too bad gullible people are falling for duckduckgo's so-called privacy promises.
- mxuribe 7y ago
  Curious, what privacy promises do you believe DuckDuckGo won't fulfill? Genuinely interested to learn.
darzu 7y ago
DuckDuckGo is still not ready to be my daily driver. Here's my last significant Google search: "monaco IndentAction.Indent" The documentation I was looking for[0] was the: - 1st hit on Google[1] - 17th hit on DDG[2] but to be fair I didn't find it within the first 10 (!) pages of Bing[3], so at least it's better than Bing. And I work for MSFT. I submitted feedback to DDG & Bing, hopefully it helps. [0] https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/api/enums/monaco.languages.indentaction.html https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/api/enums/monaco.l... [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=monaco+IndentAction.Indent&oq=monaco+IndentAction.Indent https://www.google.com/search?q=monaco+IndentAction.Indent&o... [2] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=monaco+IndentAction.Indent&t=h_&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=monaco+IndentAction.Indent&t=h_&ia... [3] https://www.bing.com/search?q=%2bmonaco+IndentAction.Indent&filters=rcrse%3a%221%22&FORM=RCRE https://www.bing.com/search?q=%2bmonaco+IndentAction.Indent&...
- suyash 7y ago
  Their search still sucks, not using until it is at least on par with Google.
  - sojmq 7y ago
    I have an idea to improve DDG results: write a greasemonkey script that automatically adds !g to all queries
- leeoniya 7y ago
  2nd result on https://searx.me/ https://searx.me/, thanks metaseach!
  - tomcooks 7y ago
    Underrepresented search engine. I don't understand how a federation of searx forks hasn't popped up yet
- Semaphor 7y ago
  For me, this is one of the things where I’m simply more explicit in what I’m looking for. So I would append api to the terms (as I’m looking for an api doc) and indeed this pushed the site you wanted to #1.
Gusen 7y ago
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Porter: Buttgieg's actually laughing about it... 1827 Donald Reeves: Can I ask you a question? Would it be too much to ask to not be laughing at the fact you just killed your first kid? 1843 Gigi Hadid: The first time DeBlasio fucked a kid... 1844 ?: Retarded observation after what just happened to that kid. 1847 Gigi Hadid: Buttgieg is dancing around [celebrating] he killed his first kid. 1903 Donald Reeves: There's not gonna be anymore of that disgusting shit! Buttgieg made him [the boy] eat his own shit. 1905 Peter Buttgieg: What's the deal Christopher? 1905 Christopher Porter: That's Buttgieg, he wants to know if that kid is still alive. 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See PDF for ch2. \\Governor Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Peter Buttgieg, NYC Mayor Bill DeBlasio, along with billionaires Henry Porter and Corey Hogan are together kicking off a "rape party" starting around 3:15 pm in Buffalo, NY on Januray 14th, 2019. 100+ deaths from the rapes over next two days. Full audio here. 14JanCh3_1500-1557.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XuQpqGMMSZsTxPeG4Rf7gmPFYl89r8xG/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XuQpqGMMSZsTxPeG4Rf7gmPFYl8... 14JanCh4_1500-1619.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mXG7L3dqCyuLvt9pTp3XLPXZIJaRESGn/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mXG7L3dqCyuLvt9pTp3XLPXZIJa... See pdf for ch2. \\Each channel has different system users of varying importance, and one may be easier to hear than another. This is explained in better detail in the PDF. These events were excerpts from this 101 page PDF . It keeps getting censored, but with enough public awareness, they will eventually have to face justice. Please help get this around [update23Nov]: FBI_FinalDraft_26Jul2019_BSchlenker.pdf https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sj9EN_pHmicKS6rFQlmk67knMdJc9cGk/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sj9EN_pHmicKS6rFQlmk67knMdJ... \\This post will be censored when this account logs off.Posts are "shadow banned". They try to make it look like the post is live, but it is not. Here is an example. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zxS8JESoIg7uxRkUgdptMsF6SuJedYKz/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zxS8JESoIg7uxRkUgdptMsF6SuJ... //@This is audio of the President, Donald Trump, demanding a $4 billion dollar bribe from child rapists to “take a blind eye” on January 3, 2019. Trump becomes one on January 14th, 2019. Also, here is the big reason the major networks do not report any of it. //Download the video, turn the volume all the way up and put head phones on. Note: there is not much to see in the video, the audio is picked up from another [illegal surveillance] system. Trump is on a call from with Henry Porter and Gigi Hadid. See page 63. Bribe demand at 10:18am: 3JanCh3_900-1100.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Grdr8xF2psKNsuYlEnl9dIRV-77YG0Vr/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Grdr8xF2psKNsuYlEnl9dIRV-77... //President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, rapes and kills his first boy at 6:32am. Video link below: 14JanCh3_600.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/154QvA5hwyHGYIVXtod1ZbsOHFUJNbqZW/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/154QvA5hwyHGYIVXtod1ZbsOHFUJ... 14JanCh2_600-700.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/19UkqmnMwZiWy7xxWngltqwoKLTJL-IZ_/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/19UkqmnMwZiWy7xxWngltqwoKLTJ... //On January 18th, 2019 at 8:31 am (see page 8) Trump acknowledges the four billion dollar bribe and says: "Let's get it done and get to fucking some kids." Video link below: 18JanCh3_725-.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bVTcGq5Z9oOSAiOQcKYrmuK4TwoNmY1h/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bVTcGq5Z9oOSAiOQcKYrmuK4Two... //A big reason this has not been reported by the major news networks is right here. Lester Holt of NBC Nightly News, apparently a member of the Illuminati since the 80's, along with ABC Nightly News lead anchor David Muir, stop over to the Porter studio in Buffalo on January 14, 2019 at 5:00am. They both rape and kill about two dozen boys by 6:00am. Muir starts around 5:15am, then Holt about 5:38am. Multi-billionaire Rupert Murdoch, owner of News Corp & Fox Corporation, takes his turn after Holt. Video links below: 14JanCh3_500-601.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i7NKepeyG_FfdQRrM7KsnFOZOOX3o7UL/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i7NKepeyG_FfdQRrM7KsnFOZOOX... 14JanCh2_530-600.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NZzgN5ilI7ToroU5cfqMaL4o2u1RwidV/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NZzgN5ilI7ToroU5cfqMaL4o2u1... Adding to the reason this is not picked up by the media, CBS & Viacom owner Sumner Redstone and Leslie Moonves rape boys following President Trump. 14JanCh3_700.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/10XDw6x3ldnnQiq7oIjpdYVENyXaB4aI0/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/10XDw6x3ldnnQiq7oIjpdYVENyXa... 14JanCh2_700-800.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NS_e6AzEZ05wnfljkGMETGU5CWYKfRDp/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NS_e6AzEZ05wnfljkGMETGU5CWY... //102 page PDF [updated 23 Nov2019]: FBI_FinalDraft_26Jul2019_BSchlenker.pdf https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sj9EN_pHmicKS6rFQlmk67knMdJc9cGk/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sj9EN_pHmicKS6rFQlmk67knMdJ... //This post will be censored when this account logs off, the posts are "shadow banned". They try to make it look like the post is live, but it is not. Here is an example. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zxS8JESoIg7uxRkUgdptMsF6SuJedYKz/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zxS8JESoIg7uxRkUgdptMsF6SuJ...
lifeisstillgood 7y ago
I was very impressed listening to Weinberg on The Angel Philospher podcast recently, and have been very happy with DDG as my default engine for about a year. And yet it was only yesterday that I realised that (for a certain section of the web) adverts on DDG are playing to a self selected audience - basically it's like running banner ads on HN. Weirdly you seem to have to go through BingYahoo - https://www.shivarweb.com/9242/how-to-advertise-on-duckduckgo/ https://www.shivarweb.com/9242/how-to-advertise-on-duckduckg...
unicornporn 7y ago
Honest question: how do you people even cope with the crap results? I'm a StartPage user, but decided to try DDG for some time after the System1 debacle [1]. The Swedish localized search results are downright unusable compared to StartPage/Google. I'm really trying to give it a chance, but I keep reaching for SP in every other search. [1] https://reclaimthenet.org/startpage-buyout-ad-tech-company/ https://reclaimthenet.org/startpage-buyout-ad-tech-company/
- wiggler00m 7y ago
  I love DuckDuckGo and use it by default but the results do suck. They are improving, however.
- lemming 7y ago
  It's not just you. I sincerely believe in DDG's mission, but the sad truth is I just can't find what I want with it. Unfortunately there seems to be no good way to use Startpage with Safari either.
  - unicornporn 7y ago
    I'm not alone! Get Firefox and chose whatever search engine you like.
- joe_the_user 7y ago
  I too use DDG first and I'm just willing to suffer a bit 'till I use Google. Using DDG first at least keeps Google honest and they are only a click away on Firefox. The thing that's saddest is not only are DDG results not as smart but they also seem dumbed-down in the fashion of Google - ie, too much "your search" --> "what we imagine you really want" --> "here's our curated list of things like this (and screw your actual keywords)"
- jammygit 7y ago
  DDG isn’t as good at indexing various forms of social media, but is decent otherwise. I find it depends where my results live Eg, Reddit, forums, stack overflow (sometimes), YouTube, etc
r00fus 7y ago
Wow, Twitter is on a roll with their inactive user purge, refusal to sell political ads (yes, issue ads are still allowed but monitored) and now this. I applaud these moves.
mlinksva 7y ago
> The app is even better! What does that mean? I guess https://duckduckgo.com/app https://duckduckgo.com/app is a browser, and a browser extension? The app is a relatively better browser than DDG search is a search engine?
- sprite-1 7y ago
  The DDG app is honestly pretty bad... the last time I tried it, there wasn't even support for tabs so you're stuck with one page view at a time. Honestly, IDK why anyone would not just use Firefox Mobile. It's got addons support too
  - AdamSC1 7y ago
    Not sure when you last tried the app but it does indeed support tabs!
    - sprite-1 7y ago
      I believe I tried it a week or so after it launched. Although, I still stand by my point that Firefox Mobile offers the privacy-oriented approach of the DDG app and so much more via addons that it's pretty hard to justify using the DDG app unless the phone is really low-end enough that Firefox chugs on it
taytus 7y ago
Who gives two shits what this guy has to say?
Seb-C 7y ago
I did try DDG and Startpage a few years ago but ultimately gave up because the results were not good. I gave another try to DDG since about 3 weeks and so far the results are pretty good. Not only they got better on the last few years, but for me Google got worse at the same time. Almost everytime I search in Google nowadays, I have to reformulate my search 2~3 times to get decent results. I often need to add double quotes, ask for reddit or specify the language. Google today just tries too much to read my mind, guess what I want and make interpretations instead of just doing what I asked. Because of this huge waste of time, I became frustrated over time. Also, I am French, use English very often (including at work) and live in Japan, so the explicit region filter of DDG is really a bless compared to the obscure and almost always wrong way Google handles this.
- cheez 7y ago
  Dude, Google is so much worse now... I have no idea what has happened.
  - U8dcN7vx 7y ago
    Having to make several searches means even more ads are presented ...
    - cheez 7y ago
      Genius
Waterluvian 7y ago
I've heard about Duck Duck Go for a while and just never bothered. But I finally decided to try it. It was easy. Settings -> Search Engines -> DuckDuckGo. And so far it's just fine. Gives me great results when searching for coding stuff.
joering2 7y ago
The idea about private browsing is silly to me frankly. Sure DuckDuckGo can be more "private" than Google on its face, but unless they are incorporated deep in Switzerland and dev/null all traffic from a US-based IPs, they are obligated, by laws, to record-keeping and in general KYC even if its only mere "search quote" and "IP address". Otherwise the would quickly get shut down by authorities (DHS in this example) under suspicious of aiding/abetting terrorism the moment someone punches "how to make bomb" and they do not properly store relevant meta-tag information.
- kortilla 7y ago
  Citation that KYC dictates that a Swiss company record US IPs and what the punishment is for not?
pkamb 7y ago
I switched my iPhone to Duck Duck Go over the last few days simply because I hate hate HATE getting linked to Reddit AMP pages from Google. Reddit (and Stack Exchange) pages are what I use most to find honest discussions about some topic. Very convenient to use those results to filter through the blogspam. Reddit's AMP pages are especially bad, with multiple annoying pop-ups that don't get cookied when you dismiss them on AMP. I don't understand what Reddit is getting out of the deal... their mobile site is equally as "mobile" as the AMP page. The AMP experience is so bad. No preference to un-AMP yourself on Google. So, I switched my search engine. The DDG results seem significantly worse, or at least very different. But old.reddit.com pages load perfectly, and fast.
- noobquestion81 7y ago
  I 100% agree with the reddit experience - it takes like 4 taps just to get to the #%!* page. No I don’t want your app shoved down my throat on every load. It has completely ruined reddit for me on mobile. Just show me ads if you need to and leave me alone.
  - echelon 7y ago
    If I had the time I'd work on a Reddit clone without the new redesign and ads. Run it completely funded by Wikipedia-style donations, then turn it over to the community for governance. Reddit's money grabs piss me off. To bootstrap the thing I'd crawl Reddit and copy threads, users, subreddits, comments - everything. Users could prove account ownership or create any account that wasn't already allocated. If Reddit sues, they'd face backlash. Comments all used to be GFDL (then Creative Commons) anyway.
    - distances 7y ago
      Have you tried using some third-party app for Reddit? "Reddit is fun" works pretty great for me, no nonsense and good usability.
      - echelon 7y ago
throwgoo52441 7y ago
Google appears to be doing increasingly creepy stuff in pursuit of higher revenues. For instance, I've recently noticed videos being recommended on my Android TV which are particularly related to, or the exactly the same as, those I watched recently on my computer (all done in private mode, no Google login anywhere). This has happened twice after resetting everything. It therefore appears that, contrary to their statements on tracking IP addresses, they're infact using them for recommendations and tracking. We can only imagine what else they are collecting behind the facade of SVs slef-conceited "liberalism".
tyzerdak 7y ago
Sometimes I use bing when google is showing biased results.
dreamcompiler 7y ago
There's an app??
- dredmorbius 7y ago
  Yes: https://duckduckgo.com/app https://duckduckgo.com/app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.duckduckgo.mobile.android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.duckduckgo... https://apps.apple.com/us/app/duckduckgo-privacy-browser/id663592361 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/duckduckgo-privacy-browser/id6...
madiathomas 7y ago
I tried DDG a while ago and it didn't feel natural to me. It will be so hard for me to change a search engine after using Google for 20 years. I am too attached to this search engine and it is good enough for my needs. I rarely change things that are working for me. It feels strange for me when I am using other search engines. I feel like I am cheating on my spouse. The first thing I do when I buy an iPhone is to hide Safari and download Google Chrome. Same thing when I buy a new Windows laptop, or reinstall Windows, I use IE/Edge to download Chrome and never use IE/Edge again. Chrome is the main reason I haven't switched to another search engine. It works better with Google apps and I rely on Google apps a lot.
- tomcooks 7y ago
  > rarely change things that are working for me. But what if said things change to the point that they're unrecognisable? What if said spouse cheats you? Because that's what's happening.
  - madiathomas 7y ago
    The benefits of using Google far outweighs the bad side of Google. When I want to search for private things, I go incognito mode. I clean up my activity log from time to time. I only allow Google Maps to track my location when I am using it. To be sure that they don't track my location, I use iPhone, not Android. That way I know they won't sneak some way to track me without my consent.
    - jshc 7y ago
      incognito mode does not prevent your search from being tracked.
      - madiathomas 7y ago
        Any evidence to backup your claims that they track incognito searches? They promised not to track and I don't see anything that suggests they do track me when I am incognito.
on_and_off 7y ago
I felt that it was time to try to switch to DDG, so I just went to the duckduckgo website, and it proposes to "add it to chrome". It leads to a chrome extension page asking me to give complete read access to what pages I visit to the DDG extension. Naive question : how can I know what DDG will do with that data ? (And yes I realize that this question applies to any search engine or extension)
- pferde 7y ago
  You made a slight logical leap there - how do you know the extension will even send any of your data to DDG for them to do something with?
  - on_and_off 7y ago
    the extension asks for the permission to access all that data.
    - pferde 7y ago
      Yes, to be able to work with them locally, within your browser.
      - on_and_off 7y ago
        what prevents the extension from sending that data ?
        pferde 7y ago
        Nothing, but you can check if it does that in its source code. Did you, or did you simply assume that it does?
        on_and_off 7y ago
        Since I don't believe I can block extension from updating, that's not going to be helpful.
kmlx 7y ago
how much marketshare does ddg need to have before we stop calling google an outright monopoly on search?
charliebrownau 7y ago
Shit If the Global LEFT supports DDG it cant be fucking trusted Time to swap to something else
vfc1 7y ago
I've tried it and the results just aren't as good as Google. For example, it does not index Javascript-heavy pages, which means a lot of documentation websites for popular open source projects are seen as blank pages by their indexer and simply won't be ranked. Also, the ability to identity a given user allows Google to serve personalized and therefore more relevant search results (which of course means you also get personalized ads).
partingshots 7y ago
This is basically just endorsing Bing though. There’s nothing wrong with that mind you, but I think it’s important to realize that DuckDuckGo is effectively just a wrapper around Bing.
trump2024 7y ago
I am thankful that Donald Trump is a fighter. Anybody else would have keeled over after so much fake attacks. I am thankful he stood up and now 2 years after the Russia collusion, his opponents look stupid and slimy to anyone who's following. I'm grateful he has cancelled TPP and NAFTA (as a former bernie supporter). I'm grateful he's fighting China and buliding the wall, thereby avoiding child trafficking, women getting raped on the way and drug deals.

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sojmq 7y ago

gud 4 him

bemeurer 7y ago

Nice endorseyment

flurdy 7y ago

Duckduckgo is great. But also because the easy !g !gi !tw shortcuts to search in google or twitter as well. Surprised to find lately that a lot of my searches only return relevant results in a twitter search.

LandR 7y ago
Also w! for wiki. The bang commands are super useful.
- ojosilva 7y ago
  That's a feature of most browsers location bar. Just assign a letter/string to any bookmark of your liking and voila! No need to depend on DDG and exclamation points for your quick searches. A few of my favorites include hn for HN's algolia, th for thesaurus, wes for Wikipedia in Spanish and d for... duck duck go.
  - flurdy 7y ago
    That is true. but my first search is always duckduckgo. Only if that doesn't tell me straight away to I go for a !bang search. The location bar now is filled with a ddg url so easier to just add ! to the search box of ddg. And as I switch machines, browsers, profiles, and privacy mode all day long the only ubuiqitous thing is that ddg is the default search engine. I don't use the !w shortcut as usually whatever/whomever I have searched for is in the info box on ddg's right-hand column and it usually has a wikipedia link if I need to get more detail.
buboard 7y ago
it's like using "reddit" on google to force it to be serious
skinnymuch 7y ago
Why can’t you use location bar in your browser?

handoff 7y ago

I guess twitter will not be acquired by google anytime soon

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ydb 7y ago

Yes @jack yes! Hopefully more high-profile thought leaders will enter the public discourse to advise on more sane, privacy-respecting alternatives. I'm glad I was relieved of hating @jack at least momentarily. :')

gootik 7y ago
May I ask why hate @jack ?
- kgraves 7y ago
  Not OP but I agree, having hate for somebody you don't know is really unhealthy.
  - pstuart 7y ago
    Having hate is really unhealthy. Easier said than done...
- pwython 7y ago
  Sacha Baron Cohen recently called out jack and the other "silicon six." https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/21/sacha-baron-cohen-rips-on-facebook-and-big-tech-for-sowing-hate.html https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/21/sacha-baron-cohen-rips-on-fa...
  - ehsankia 7y ago
    Don't get me wrong, I love his work, but I don't really understand why what he has to say about tech is any more relevant than any other celebrity. It's not like he has some deeper insider knowledge of the subject.
    - pwython 7y ago
      From the Anti-Defamation League: > Sacha Baron Cohen is the well-deserved recipient of ADL’s International Leadership Award, which goes to exceptional individuals who combine professional success with a profound personal commitment to community involvement and to crossing borders and barriers with a message of diversity and equal opportunity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymaWq5yZIYM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymaWq5yZIYM

stanislavb 7y ago

SaaSHub's CEO endorsed DuckDuckGo as well recently https://twitter.com/StanBright/status/1199114972707508225 https://twitter.com/StanBright/status/1199114972707508225

kgraves 7y ago
who?
- corndoge 7y ago
  Himself. He's referring to himself, by title, in the third person.
  - GhettoMaestro 7y ago
    Cringe.

skuthus 7y ago

This is awesome - happy to see privacy oriented search become more popular. I think DuckDuckGo needs a better name though - Something more ubiquitous. Duck, maybe? Quack?

dannylandau 7y ago
my vote is for -- quackquackdoc
krackers 7y ago
There was a rant by some other HN user about how DDG owns "duck.com" yet refuses to just point it to a search page.
- godelski 7y ago
  duck.com DOES redirect to duckduckgo.com. IIRC Google used to own duck.com and wouldn't redirect, but once DDG got ownership they redirected it.
  - krackers 7y ago
    Visiting the page incognito, you're hit with a modal dialogue that you have to dismiss before you can search.
    - godelski 7y ago
      This does not happen in FireFox. Are you suggesting Google is still playing dumb games?
      - jobigoud 7y ago
        I can repro this in Firefox. Are you disabling Javascript?
        godelski 7y ago

tuldia 7y ago

Given the amount of M$ ads DDG has showing latelly does not surprises me they might be partnering with bing.

__ka 7y ago
DuckDuckGo is already partnering with Bing - that's where they get their results from.
teh_klev 7y ago
> M$ Hello, 1990's Slashdot called and would like its tired old '$' satire back.
- harry8 7y ago
  M$ would like their tired old 1990s business practises back, oh wait they never left. Just like the M$ shorthand which we see less simply becuase we talk about them less. It's reputation they fully earned. You can write "Microsoft" in full whenever you like if you prefer too. I think it's pretty reasonable to casually express contempt at every opportunity for any business that puts money vastly further ahead of ethics than they need to. You can disgaree with that if you like too. Facebrick is the new M$. What do we have for Goog? "do no evil" with strickeout for more money? $GOOG?
  - teh_klev 7y ago
    My friend, I think you missed the sarcasm and possibly some satire in my comment.
TimTheTinker 7y ago
For more info: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/company/advertising-and-affiliates/ https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/company/ad...
- tuldia 7y ago
  Search for: 1. "fix incorrect mayonese". 2. "fix incorrect lazagna" and compare with: 1. "fix incorrect mayonnaise". 2. "fix incorrect lasagna"

caiocaiocaio 7y ago

I would hate it if one of history's most notorious Nazi collaborators endorsed on of my projects.

cameronbrown 7y ago
You serious?
ethelward 7y ago
Yeah, @jack is definitely comparable to Laval, Qisling, or Kaminski for the title of ‶most notorious Nazi collaborator of History″...
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Tade0 7y ago
As somebody hailing from an area that used to be under occupation by the Nazis and thus having heard multiple first-hand accounts of how it transpired I assure you that's not how actual Nazi collaborators operated. Please don't dilute the meaning behind this expression.
dang 7y ago
Please don't do this here.

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buboard 7y ago

Searching google nowadays feels like searching an ad database. For me it isn't even a matter of privacy but about exclusion of 90% of the web out there. Bing is not bad either, nor is yandex. What else is there? Remember when google was like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8JT9QWA-eY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8JT9QWA-eY

zo1 7y ago
They also focus on the "buying" portion of the internet way too much. Either that, or 90% of the internet is revolved around buying shit.

__ka 7y ago

I have mixed feelings about this. If you recommend DuckDuckGo, Qwant, Ecosia you're essentially recommending Bing. Each of them have to show bing ads, forward the users' IPs as per Bing's terms of service (to fight ad fraud etc). Similarly, if you recommend StartPage, you're recommending Google. Same drill with ads. I like DuckDuckGo. But unless they build their own search - I think the fundamental problem has not been tackled. There is no good, independent, private search alternative. [Edit] I am not trying to single out DDG. There are a few replies that either demand for proof (rightfully) or suggest Bing is used only sometimes. I do not have conclusive proof, but have worked on search. Here's a couple of things for the curious: 1. Try to run this test: If you query "what is my ip" in duckduckgo (DDG), or any of the other ones I mentioned, you will notice in the description of one of the top results this IP: 207.46.13.147. It's a BingBot IP [0]. It's a good enough test to spot where results are coming from. 2. Open two browser windows side by side with DDG and Bing. Turn on results for the country you are in in DDG. Look attentively. Try image search. It is clear that DDG does some re-ranking based on its own, but it's very often the same results. [0] https://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/207.46.13.147 https://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/207.46.13.147

iagovar 7y ago
AFAIK qwant is using its own engine
liambates 7y ago
Aren't DuckDuckGo searches a mixture of Bing, Yahoo, Yandex and their own crawler? I don't know a great deal about their infrastructure and would love to learn more about it.
- Rebelgecko 7y ago
  I don't know about the DDG searches, but IIRC Yahoo is just Bing now
- mikeleeorg 7y ago
  This article is from 2017, but has some more technical detail behind DDG than other articles do: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/duckduckgo-anonymous-privacy https://www.wired.co.uk/article/duckduckgo-anonymous-privacy

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throwaway122378 7y ago

I call publicity stunt. Jack is doing just as much to censor free thought as is Google.

xwowsersx 7y ago
100%
tash7oeb 7y ago
I met Jack a number of years ago. He did not strike me as someone interested in stifling free speech. Although he was incredibly successful, even then, his values seemed to be high above those of most mortals. One of these values that he explicitly mentioned was free speech. Additionally, while discussing our accomplishments, he stated that he had an IQ of 155. My own is 160, which is above his, but he nonetheless seemed almost as intelligent as me, which I am certainly not used to.

gundmc 7y ago

Digital ad company CEO endorses competitor of rival digital ad company.

xwowsersx 7y ago
Haha, took the words right out of my mouth.
chance_state 7y ago
Twitter makes less than $3B/year on ads. Google makes $135B+. Are they really competitors?
- Craighead 7y ago
  Is Tesla really a competitor to Mitsubishi?
- rndgermandude 7y ago
  Yes, they are. Both have ads as their primary revenue stream. It does not matter if they are unequal in size, they still compete in the same space.
  - vishnu_ks 7y ago
    DuckDuckGo also makes money through ads.
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leadingthenet 7y ago
Digital ad company CEO endorses competitor that is also a digital ad company of rival digital ad company.

zokula 7y ago

It's too bad gullible people are falling for duckduckgo's so-called privacy promises.

mxuribe 7y ago
Curious, what privacy promises do you believe DuckDuckGo won't fulfill? Genuinely interested to learn.

darzu 7y ago

DuckDuckGo is still not ready to be my daily driver. Here's my last significant Google search: "monaco IndentAction.Indent" The documentation I was looking for[0] was the: - 1st hit on Google[1] - 17th hit on DDG[2] but to be fair I didn't find it within the first 10 (!) pages of Bing[3], so at least it's better than Bing. And I work for MSFT. I submitted feedback to DDG & Bing, hopefully it helps. [0] https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/api/enums/monaco.languages.indentaction.html https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/api/enums/monaco.l... [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=monaco+IndentAction.Indent&oq=monaco+IndentAction.Indent https://www.google.com/search?q=monaco+IndentAction.Indent&o... [2] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=monaco+IndentAction.Indent&t=h_&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=monaco+IndentAction.Indent&t=h_&ia... [3] https://www.bing.com/search?q=%2bmonaco+IndentAction.Indent&filters=rcrse%3a%221%22&FORM=RCRE https://www.bing.com/search?q=%2bmonaco+IndentAction.Indent&...

suyash 7y ago
Their search still sucks, not using until it is at least on par with Google.
- sojmq 7y ago
  I have an idea to improve DDG results: write a greasemonkey script that automatically adds !g to all queries
leeoniya 7y ago
2nd result on https://searx.me/ https://searx.me/, thanks metaseach!
- tomcooks 7y ago
  Underrepresented search engine. I don't understand how a federation of searx forks hasn't popped up yet
Semaphor 7y ago
For me, this is one of the things where I’m simply more explicit in what I’m looking for. So I would append api to the terms (as I’m looking for an api doc) and indeed this pushed the site you wanted to #1.

Gusen 7y ago

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey rapes and kills 3 boys 14Jan2019, see page 35+... South Bend, Indiana mayor and political up and comer Peter Buttgieg rapes & kills five boys in Buffalo on January 14, 2019. Buttgieg makes a child eat his own feces at one point. Gov. Andrew Cuomo & NYC Mayor Bill DeBlasio present also to kick off a "rape party". Complete uncut audio of it all here. \\Peter Buttgieg is raping boys through 9pm, starting around 6:25pm. Download the video, turn the volume all the way up and put head phones on. Note: there is not much to see in the video, the audio is picked up from another [illegal surveillance] system. See page 35 in the PDF below. He identifies himself on page 32 around 3:31pm+. \\Excerpts of the dialogue: 1826 Gigi Hadid: Buttgieg just killed his first kid. 1827 ?: He's standing there in shock. 1827 Peter Buttgieg: I feel soulless right now, maybe I'm better off that way. 1827 Sean? Porter: Buttgieg's actually laughing about it... 1827 Donald Reeves: Can I ask you a question? Would it be too much to ask to not be laughing at the fact you just killed your first kid? 1843 Gigi Hadid: The first time DeBlasio fucked a kid... 1844 ?: Retarded observation after what just happened to that kid. 1847 Gigi Hadid: Buttgieg is dancing around [celebrating] he killed his first kid. 1903 Donald Reeves: There's not gonna be anymore of that disgusting shit! Buttgieg made him [the boy] eat his own shit. 1905 Peter Buttgieg: What's the deal Christopher? 1905 Christopher Porter: That's Buttgieg, he wants to know if that kid is still alive. Video links below: 14JanCh3_1800-1 900_redo.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R_gL3dDbmb0Rc5XtStHGPOlE_YKgmBHZ/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R_gL3dDbmb0Rc5XtStHGPOlE_YK... 14JanCh3_1900-2100.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1niNx_msEeisZkotJLacqAk2atsEOjqLI/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1niNx_msEeisZkotJLacqAk2atsE... 14JanCh4_1800-1902.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ewfY3sl2Z7Tq3yxMAG4l9xEiNRuPdnbk/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ewfY3sl2Z7Tq3yxMAG4l9xEiNRu... 14JanCh4_1902-2000avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/17P8AaMtTAtS15N3OFP6HnqO6y7icpZy1/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/17P8AaMtTAtS15N3OFP6HnqO6y7i... 14JanCh4_2000-2100.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/193Cwj7v6ZLR0dqY9pRMEtG8Fhd8VhqR-/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/193Cwj7v6ZLR0dqY9pRMEtG8Fhd8... See PDF for ch2. \\Governor Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Peter Buttgieg, NYC Mayor Bill DeBlasio, along with billionaires Henry Porter and Corey Hogan are together kicking off a "rape party" starting around 3:15 pm in Buffalo, NY on Januray 14th, 2019. 100+ deaths from the rapes over next two days. Full audio here. 14JanCh3_1500-1557.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XuQpqGMMSZsTxPeG4Rf7gmPFYl89r8xG/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XuQpqGMMSZsTxPeG4Rf7gmPFYl8... 14JanCh4_1500-1619.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mXG7L3dqCyuLvt9pTp3XLPXZIJaRESGn/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mXG7L3dqCyuLvt9pTp3XLPXZIJa... See pdf for ch2. \\Each channel has different system users of varying importance, and one may be easier to hear than another. This is explained in better detail in the PDF. These events were excerpts from this 101 page PDF . It keeps getting censored, but with enough public awareness, they will eventually have to face justice. Please help get this around [update23Nov]: FBI_FinalDraft_26Jul2019_BSchlenker.pdf https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sj9EN_pHmicKS6rFQlmk67knMdJc9cGk/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sj9EN_pHmicKS6rFQlmk67knMdJ... \\This post will be censored when this account logs off.Posts are "shadow banned". They try to make it look like the post is live, but it is not. Here is an example. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zxS8JESoIg7uxRkUgdptMsF6SuJedYKz/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zxS8JESoIg7uxRkUgdptMsF6SuJ... //@This is audio of the President, Donald Trump, demanding a $4 billion dollar bribe from child rapists to “take a blind eye” on January 3, 2019. Trump becomes one on January 14th, 2019. Also, here is the big reason the major networks do not report any of it. //Download the video, turn the volume all the way up and put head phones on. Note: there is not much to see in the video, the audio is picked up from another [illegal surveillance] system. Trump is on a call from with Henry Porter and Gigi Hadid. See page 63. Bribe demand at 10:18am: 3JanCh3_900-1100.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Grdr8xF2psKNsuYlEnl9dIRV-77YG0Vr/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Grdr8xF2psKNsuYlEnl9dIRV-77... //President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, rapes and kills his first boy at 6:32am. Video link below: 14JanCh3_600.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/154QvA5hwyHGYIVXtod1ZbsOHFUJNbqZW/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/154QvA5hwyHGYIVXtod1ZbsOHFUJ... 14JanCh2_600-700.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/19UkqmnMwZiWy7xxWngltqwoKLTJL-IZ_/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/19UkqmnMwZiWy7xxWngltqwoKLTJ... //On January 18th, 2019 at 8:31 am (see page 8) Trump acknowledges the four billion dollar bribe and says: "Let's get it done and get to fucking some kids." Video link below: 18JanCh3_725-.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bVTcGq5Z9oOSAiOQcKYrmuK4TwoNmY1h/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bVTcGq5Z9oOSAiOQcKYrmuK4Two... //A big reason this has not been reported by the major news networks is right here. Lester Holt of NBC Nightly News, apparently a member of the Illuminati since the 80's, along with ABC Nightly News lead anchor David Muir, stop over to the Porter studio in Buffalo on January 14, 2019 at 5:00am. They both rape and kill about two dozen boys by 6:00am. Muir starts around 5:15am, then Holt about 5:38am. Multi-billionaire Rupert Murdoch, owner of News Corp & Fox Corporation, takes his turn after Holt. Video links below: 14JanCh3_500-601.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i7NKepeyG_FfdQRrM7KsnFOZOOX3o7UL/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i7NKepeyG_FfdQRrM7KsnFOZOOX... 14JanCh2_530-600.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NZzgN5ilI7ToroU5cfqMaL4o2u1RwidV/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NZzgN5ilI7ToroU5cfqMaL4o2u1... Adding to the reason this is not picked up by the media, CBS & Viacom owner Sumner Redstone and Leslie Moonves rape boys following President Trump. 14JanCh3_700.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/10XDw6x3ldnnQiq7oIjpdYVENyXaB4aI0/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/10XDw6x3ldnnQiq7oIjpdYVENyXa... 14JanCh2_700-800.avi https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NS_e6AzEZ05wnfljkGMETGU5CWYKfRDp/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NS_e6AzEZ05wnfljkGMETGU5CWY... //102 page PDF [updated 23 Nov2019]: FBI_FinalDraft_26Jul2019_BSchlenker.pdf https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sj9EN_pHmicKS6rFQlmk67knMdJc9cGk/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sj9EN_pHmicKS6rFQlmk67knMdJ... //This post will be censored when this account logs off, the posts are "shadow banned". They try to make it look like the post is live, but it is not. Here is an example. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zxS8JESoIg7uxRkUgdptMsF6SuJedYKz/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zxS8JESoIg7uxRkUgdptMsF6SuJ...

lifeisstillgood 7y ago

I was very impressed listening to Weinberg on The Angel Philospher podcast recently, and have been very happy with DDG as my default engine for about a year. And yet it was only yesterday that I realised that (for a certain section of the web) adverts on DDG are playing to a self selected audience - basically it's like running banner ads on HN. Weirdly you seem to have to go through BingYahoo - https://www.shivarweb.com/9242/how-to-advertise-on-duckduckgo/ https://www.shivarweb.com/9242/how-to-advertise-on-duckduckg...

unicornporn 7y ago

Honest question: how do you people even cope with the crap results? I'm a StartPage user, but decided to try DDG for some time after the System1 debacle [1]. The Swedish localized search results are downright unusable compared to StartPage/Google. I'm really trying to give it a chance, but I keep reaching for SP in every other search. [1] https://reclaimthenet.org/startpage-buyout-ad-tech-company/ https://reclaimthenet.org/startpage-buyout-ad-tech-company/

wiggler00m 7y ago
I love DuckDuckGo and use it by default but the results do suck. They are improving, however.
lemming 7y ago
It's not just you. I sincerely believe in DDG's mission, but the sad truth is I just can't find what I want with it. Unfortunately there seems to be no good way to use Startpage with Safari either.
- unicornporn 7y ago
  I'm not alone! Get Firefox and chose whatever search engine you like.
joe_the_user 7y ago
I too use DDG first and I'm just willing to suffer a bit 'till I use Google. Using DDG first at least keeps Google honest and they are only a click away on Firefox. The thing that's saddest is not only are DDG results not as smart but they also seem dumbed-down in the fashion of Google - ie, too much "your search" --> "what we imagine you really want" --> "here's our curated list of things like this (and screw your actual keywords)"
jammygit 7y ago
DDG isn’t as good at indexing various forms of social media, but is decent otherwise. I find it depends where my results live Eg, Reddit, forums, stack overflow (sometimes), YouTube, etc

r00fus 7y ago

Wow, Twitter is on a roll with their inactive user purge, refusal to sell political ads (yes, issue ads are still allowed but monitored) and now this. I applaud these moves.

mlinksva 7y ago

> The app is even better! What does that mean? I guess https://duckduckgo.com/app https://duckduckgo.com/app is a browser, and a browser extension? The app is a relatively better browser than DDG search is a search engine?

sprite-1 7y ago
The DDG app is honestly pretty bad... the last time I tried it, there wasn't even support for tabs so you're stuck with one page view at a time. Honestly, IDK why anyone would not just use Firefox Mobile. It's got addons support too
- AdamSC1 7y ago
  Not sure when you last tried the app but it does indeed support tabs!
  - sprite-1 7y ago
    I believe I tried it a week or so after it launched. Although, I still stand by my point that Firefox Mobile offers the privacy-oriented approach of the DDG app and so much more via addons that it's pretty hard to justify using the DDG app unless the phone is really low-end enough that Firefox chugs on it

taytus 7y ago

Who gives two shits what this guy has to say?

Seb-C 7y ago

I did try DDG and Startpage a few years ago but ultimately gave up because the results were not good. I gave another try to DDG since about 3 weeks and so far the results are pretty good. Not only they got better on the last few years, but for me Google got worse at the same time. Almost everytime I search in Google nowadays, I have to reformulate my search 2~3 times to get decent results. I often need to add double quotes, ask for reddit or specify the language. Google today just tries too much to read my mind, guess what I want and make interpretations instead of just doing what I asked. Because of this huge waste of time, I became frustrated over time. Also, I am French, use English very often (including at work) and live in Japan, so the explicit region filter of DDG is really a bless compared to the obscure and almost always wrong way Google handles this.

cheez 7y ago
Dude, Google is so much worse now... I have no idea what has happened.
- U8dcN7vx 7y ago
  Having to make several searches means even more ads are presented ...
  - cheez 7y ago
    Genius

Waterluvian 7y ago

I've heard about Duck Duck Go for a while and just never bothered. But I finally decided to try it. It was easy. Settings -> Search Engines -> DuckDuckGo. And so far it's just fine. Gives me great results when searching for coding stuff.

joering2 7y ago

The idea about private browsing is silly to me frankly. Sure DuckDuckGo can be more "private" than Google on its face, but unless they are incorporated deep in Switzerland and dev/null all traffic from a US-based IPs, they are obligated, by laws, to record-keeping and in general KYC even if its only mere "search quote" and "IP address". Otherwise the would quickly get shut down by authorities (DHS in this example) under suspicious of aiding/abetting terrorism the moment someone punches "how to make bomb" and they do not properly store relevant meta-tag information.

kortilla 7y ago
Citation that KYC dictates that a Swiss company record US IPs and what the punishment is for not?

pkamb 7y ago

I switched my iPhone to Duck Duck Go over the last few days simply because I hate hate HATE getting linked to Reddit AMP pages from Google. Reddit (and Stack Exchange) pages are what I use most to find honest discussions about some topic. Very convenient to use those results to filter through the blogspam. Reddit's AMP pages are especially bad, with multiple annoying pop-ups that don't get cookied when you dismiss them on AMP. I don't understand what Reddit is getting out of the deal... their mobile site is equally as "mobile" as the AMP page. The AMP experience is so bad. No preference to un-AMP yourself on Google. So, I switched my search engine. The DDG results seem significantly worse, or at least very different. But old.reddit.com pages load perfectly, and fast.

noobquestion81 7y ago
I 100% agree with the reddit experience - it takes like 4 taps just to get to the #%!* page. No I don’t want your app shoved down my throat on every load. It has completely ruined reddit for me on mobile. Just show me ads if you need to and leave me alone.
- echelon 7y ago
  If I had the time I'd work on a Reddit clone without the new redesign and ads. Run it completely funded by Wikipedia-style donations, then turn it over to the community for governance. Reddit's money grabs piss me off. To bootstrap the thing I'd crawl Reddit and copy threads, users, subreddits, comments - everything. Users could prove account ownership or create any account that wasn't already allocated. If Reddit sues, they'd face backlash. Comments all used to be GFDL (then Creative Commons) anyway.
  - distances 7y ago
    Have you tried using some third-party app for Reddit? "Reddit is fun" works pretty great for me, no nonsense and good usability.
    - echelon 7y ago

throwgoo52441 7y ago

Google appears to be doing increasingly creepy stuff in pursuit of higher revenues. For instance, I've recently noticed videos being recommended on my Android TV which are particularly related to, or the exactly the same as, those I watched recently on my computer (all done in private mode, no Google login anywhere). This has happened twice after resetting everything. It therefore appears that, contrary to their statements on tracking IP addresses, they're infact using them for recommendations and tracking. We can only imagine what else they are collecting behind the facade of SVs slef-conceited "liberalism".

tyzerdak 7y ago

Sometimes I use bing when google is showing biased results.

dreamcompiler 7y ago

There's an app??

dredmorbius 7y ago
Yes: https://duckduckgo.com/app https://duckduckgo.com/app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.duckduckgo.mobile.android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.duckduckgo... https://apps.apple.com/us/app/duckduckgo-privacy-browser/id663592361 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/duckduckgo-privacy-browser/id6...

madiathomas 7y ago

I tried DDG a while ago and it didn't feel natural to me. It will be so hard for me to change a search engine after using Google for 20 years. I am too attached to this search engine and it is good enough for my needs. I rarely change things that are working for me. It feels strange for me when I am using other search engines. I feel like I am cheating on my spouse. The first thing I do when I buy an iPhone is to hide Safari and download Google Chrome. Same thing when I buy a new Windows laptop, or reinstall Windows, I use IE/Edge to download Chrome and never use IE/Edge again. Chrome is the main reason I haven't switched to another search engine. It works better with Google apps and I rely on Google apps a lot.

tomcooks 7y ago
> rarely change things that are working for me. But what if said things change to the point that they're unrecognisable? What if said spouse cheats you? Because that's what's happening.
- madiathomas 7y ago
  The benefits of using Google far outweighs the bad side of Google. When I want to search for private things, I go incognito mode. I clean up my activity log from time to time. I only allow Google Maps to track my location when I am using it. To be sure that they don't track my location, I use iPhone, not Android. That way I know they won't sneak some way to track me without my consent.
  - jshc 7y ago
    incognito mode does not prevent your search from being tracked.
    - madiathomas 7y ago
      Any evidence to backup your claims that they track incognito searches? They promised not to track and I don't see anything that suggests they do track me when I am incognito.

on_and_off 7y ago

I felt that it was time to try to switch to DDG, so I just went to the duckduckgo website, and it proposes to "add it to chrome". It leads to a chrome extension page asking me to give complete read access to what pages I visit to the DDG extension. Naive question : how can I know what DDG will do with that data ? (And yes I realize that this question applies to any search engine or extension)

pferde 7y ago
You made a slight logical leap there - how do you know the extension will even send any of your data to DDG for them to do something with?
- on_and_off 7y ago
  the extension asks for the permission to access all that data.
  - pferde 7y ago
    Yes, to be able to work with them locally, within your browser.
    - on_and_off 7y ago
      what prevents the extension from sending that data ?
      - pferde 7y ago
        Nothing, but you can check if it does that in its source code. Did you, or did you simply assume that it does?
        on_and_off 7y ago
        Since I don't believe I can block extension from updating, that's not going to be helpful.

kmlx 7y ago

how much marketshare does ddg need to have before we stop calling google an outright monopoly on search?

charliebrownau 7y ago

Shit If the Global LEFT supports DDG it cant be fucking trusted Time to swap to something else

vfc1 7y ago

I've tried it and the results just aren't as good as Google. For example, it does not index Javascript-heavy pages, which means a lot of documentation websites for popular open source projects are seen as blank pages by their indexer and simply won't be ranked. Also, the ability to identity a given user allows Google to serve personalized and therefore more relevant search results (which of course means you also get personalized ads).

partingshots 7y ago

This is basically just endorsing Bing though. There’s nothing wrong with that mind you, but I think it’s important to realize that DuckDuckGo is effectively just a wrapper around Bing.

trump2024 7y ago

I am thankful that Donald Trump is a fighter. Anybody else would have keeled over after so much fake attacks. I am thankful he stood up and now 2 years after the Russia collusion, his opponents look stupid and slimy to anyone who's following. I'm grateful he has cancelled TPP and NAFTA (as a former bernie supporter). I'm grateful he's fighting China and buliding the wall, thereby avoiding child trafficking, women getting raped on the way and drug deals.