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DDG CEO is clearly biased. Its no longer a neutral platform: https://twitter.com/yegg/status/1501716484761997318?s=20&t=9Z_0UQJohT3MCQ8zpFRe_g https://twitter

DDG CEO is clearly biased. Its no longer a neutral platform: https://twitter.com/yegg/status/1501716484761997318?s=20&t=9Z_0UQJohT3MCQ8zpFRe_g https://twitter.com/yegg/status/1501716484761997318?s=20&t=9... Before someone chimes in, yes I understand the humanitarian perspective. That's not my point. My point is that DDG is not neutral, and is politically biased.

RedBeetDeadpool 4y ago
BTW, if you wanted a biased platform, just use Google, its significantly better in every way. Ultimately what I'm getting at is: There's no market for DDG. Use Google for biased searches, and use other search engines that are not biased(which excludes DDG) for unbiased searches. What are the use cases for DDG?
- pmoriarty 4y ago
  DDG respects privacy, or at least claims to. Google has nothing but contempt for it, and thrives on spying on you.
- CameronNemo 4y ago
  Few people switched to DDG because of censorship, the main DDG selling point is privacy. All of their marketing stresses that aspect.
  - cinquemb 4y ago
    "All"[0] in the revision of historical examples sense. Unless one really thinks that filter bubbles have no overlap with censorship. Maybe i was only the few that cared more about the filter bubble angle and less the "we're selling bottled privacy™" angle [1] and am not interested now that `yegg` has clearly reneged upon the former [0] https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/20/duckduckgo-to-google-bing-users-escape-them-filter-bubbles/ https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/20/duckduckgo-to-google-bing-... [1] https://pictobar.tumblr.com/post/63785124046/the-banality-of-privacy-as-a-service https://pictobar.tumblr.com/post/63785124046/the-banality-of...
- ikt 4y ago
  > BTW, if you wanted a biased platform, just use Google, its significantly better in every way. It's not to me, when was the last time you used it? I haven't used Google in around 4 years now and I'm getting on just fine, majority of searches answered on first page. If anything I now toggle between Duckduck and Ecosia as Ecosia still isn't 100% up to scratch (frequent 500 errors, slow, results are bad) but I like the idea of my searches planting trees.
- remram 4y ago
  Recently Google started ignoring double-quotes entirely which makes it pretty much useless for most of my daily search needs.
- leach 4y ago
  Yeah DDG is just a worse google. If I want to use google I might as well use google. When I want unbiased searches I've been using Kagi but more are popping up. they approach search differently so it's useful when google feels to "sanitized" for certain searches
- Germstorm 4y ago
  I use them as default search on my Android devices, to avoid the cookie banner of Google in private browsing mode.
bedros 4y ago
I removed DDG from my browsers after his tweet. they are no different from Google

RedBeetDeadpool 4y ago

BTW, if you wanted a biased platform, just use Google, its significantly better in every way. Ultimately what I'm getting at is: There's no market for DDG. Use Google for biased searches, and use other search engines that are not biased(which excludes DDG) for unbiased searches. What are the use cases for DDG?

pmoriarty 4y ago
DDG respects privacy, or at least claims to. Google has nothing but contempt for it, and thrives on spying on you.
CameronNemo 4y ago
Few people switched to DDG because of censorship, the main DDG selling point is privacy. All of their marketing stresses that aspect.
- cinquemb 4y ago
  "All"[0] in the revision of historical examples sense. Unless one really thinks that filter bubbles have no overlap with censorship. Maybe i was only the few that cared more about the filter bubble angle and less the "we're selling bottled privacy™" angle [1] and am not interested now that `yegg` has clearly reneged upon the former [0] https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/20/duckduckgo-to-google-bing-users-escape-them-filter-bubbles/ https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/20/duckduckgo-to-google-bing-... [1] https://pictobar.tumblr.com/post/63785124046/the-banality-of-privacy-as-a-service https://pictobar.tumblr.com/post/63785124046/the-banality-of...
ikt 4y ago
> BTW, if you wanted a biased platform, just use Google, its significantly better in every way. It's not to me, when was the last time you used it? I haven't used Google in around 4 years now and I'm getting on just fine, majority of searches answered on first page. If anything I now toggle between Duckduck and Ecosia as Ecosia still isn't 100% up to scratch (frequent 500 errors, slow, results are bad) but I like the idea of my searches planting trees.
remram 4y ago
Recently Google started ignoring double-quotes entirely which makes it pretty much useless for most of my daily search needs.
leach 4y ago
Yeah DDG is just a worse google. If I want to use google I might as well use google. When I want unbiased searches I've been using Kagi but more are popping up. they approach search differently so it's useful when google feels to "sanitized" for certain searches
Germstorm 4y ago
I use them as default search on my Android devices, to avoid the cookie banner of Google in private browsing mode.

bedros 4y ago

I removed DDG from my browsers after his tweet. they are no different from Google