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Came here to see if I was crazy. Should be an interesting post-mortem, I wonder if someone dropped the production database...
by longhairedhippy 6y ago
Came here to see if I was crazy. Should be an interesting post-mortem, I wonder if someone dropped the production database...
- baddox 6y agoAutocomplete in the search bar still works, so there’s some data out there.
- matt-attack 6y agoI would have thought that the type of person compelled to use DDG, would disable autocomplete.
- baddox 6y agoI don’t use DDG. I just followed this HN link, then tried typing some other things in the search bar.
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y agoIt really depends. On the continuum of "I don't care about privacy" to "borderline paranoid", there's certainly a middle ground of "I don't trust Google but do trust DDG to not record every keystroke I send and add it to my profile forever" that would be happy to enable autocomplete if it was going to a search engine with a meaningful privacy stance.
- nitrogen 6y agoIf I remember correctly their autocomplete might use probabilistic data structures to preserve some privacy, so you download a set of random completions rather than just a single completion. But I don't know where I read that or if it was implemented.
- longhairedhippy 6y agoMost of my searching is through the firefox address bar so I didn't notice, I just kept coming up on empty search pages. It did not compute at first, I must have done 3-4 searches before I realized what was happening.