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I'm probably going to stop using DDG now. I don't want my results filtered in anyway because of pearl clutching over 'piracy' or whatever.

mysterydip 5y ago
What are you going to use instead?
- ok123456 5y ago
  yandex
  - CharlesW 5y ago
    Yandex is the worst alternative you could pick. https://www.protocol.com/policy/yandex-gershenzon-qa https://www.protocol.com/policy/yandex-gershenzon-qa
    - tonguez 5y ago
      “…tech giant Yandex has a handshake deal with government authorities to limit what news outlets the site will pull onto its homepage” wow that sounds so incredibly different from the alternatives
      - antattack 5y ago
        Makes one wonder, however, what other 'handshake deals' with autocratic government there are.
        ok123456 5y ago
        Yeah. I'm sure Russia is the only place where the telecom, tech and news sectors have quid pro quos with the organs of state. [1] https://www.wired.com/2006/05/att-whistle-blowers-evidence/ https://www.wired.com/2006/05/att-whistle-blowers-evidence/
        antattack 5y ago
        The difference is that I have no control what Russia does with my information but I have some control over what my country is doing with it.
        ok123456 5y ago
        Do you really? The likelihood of legislation passing in the US is totally independent of how popular it is.
    - ok123456 5y ago
      Just don't get all your news from yandax??
      - debesyla 5y ago
        All kinds of info/website are also censored in Russia. They censor anything that could be taken as against the Duma-Putin.
- s__s 5y ago
  Brave has a new search engine.
  - sircastor 5y ago
    I’ve been using this as it came as the default for a new Brave install I got. I’m oscillating between it and Google: the former because I don’t want to continue to give Google all this free data, the latter because Google’s results are good (or at least reliably what I expect) Braves search is still kind of meh, but I appreciate that they’re trying.
vvf1 5y ago
Can highly recommend https://you.com https://you.com Great engine with some really nice features
- mdp2021 5y ago
  Discussed a few months ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29165601 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29165601
- ok123456 5y ago
  Getting a blank "Please reload the page, something went wrong" page instead of rendering anything. Seems to have an uncaught exception trying to use the beacon API (which I have disabled). You.com looks like junk.
  - WhyNotHugo 5y ago
    Same
  - richardsocher 5y ago
    The beacon bug is fixed now and it should work when disabled.

mysterydip 5y ago

What are you going to use instead?

ok123456 5y ago
yandex
- CharlesW 5y ago
  Yandex is the worst alternative you could pick. https://www.protocol.com/policy/yandex-gershenzon-qa https://www.protocol.com/policy/yandex-gershenzon-qa
  - tonguez 5y ago
    “…tech giant Yandex has a handshake deal with government authorities to limit what news outlets the site will pull onto its homepage” wow that sounds so incredibly different from the alternatives
    - antattack 5y ago
      Makes one wonder, however, what other 'handshake deals' with autocratic government there are.
      - ok123456 5y ago
        Yeah. I'm sure Russia is the only place where the telecom, tech and news sectors have quid pro quos with the organs of state. [1] https://www.wired.com/2006/05/att-whistle-blowers-evidence/ https://www.wired.com/2006/05/att-whistle-blowers-evidence/
        antattack 5y ago
        The difference is that I have no control what Russia does with my information but I have some control over what my country is doing with it.
        ok123456 5y ago
        Do you really? The likelihood of legislation passing in the US is totally independent of how popular it is.
  - ok123456 5y ago
    Just don't get all your news from yandax??
    - debesyla 5y ago
      All kinds of info/website are also censored in Russia. They censor anything that could be taken as against the Duma-Putin.
s__s 5y ago
Brave has a new search engine.
- sircastor 5y ago
  I’ve been using this as it came as the default for a new Brave install I got. I’m oscillating between it and Google: the former because I don’t want to continue to give Google all this free data, the latter because Google’s results are good (or at least reliably what I expect) Braves search is still kind of meh, but I appreciate that they’re trying.

vvf1 5y ago

Can highly recommend https://you.com https://you.com Great engine with some really nice features

mdp2021 5y ago
Discussed a few months ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29165601 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29165601
ok123456 5y ago
Getting a blank "Please reload the page, something went wrong" page instead of rendering anything. Seems to have an uncaught exception trying to use the beacon API (which I have disabled). You.com looks like junk.
- WhyNotHugo 5y ago
  Same
- richardsocher 5y ago
  The beacon bug is fixed now and it should work when disabled.