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If this is truly a site by site blacklist, and it is truly this small, and truly limited to only the most extreme cases, you realize that even the slightest cru
by Karunamon 3y ago
If this is truly a site by site blacklist, and it is truly this small, and truly limited to only the most extreme cases, you realize that even the slightest crumb of transparency would invalidate most of the complaints, right? This is why you are getting dragged repeatedly, all of the possible reasons for being this cagey about this reflect terribly on DDG. Your FAQ page is loaded with what Wikipedia would call "weasel words".
- Why can you not publish who these organizations are and what the "objective" standards they all use are?
- Why can you not notify users when they have entered a query that has results subjected to this rank modification? (And/or give them the ability to reverse it?)
- Why can you not just publish the naughty list?
- Why can you not publish anything objectively verifiable about this entire process?
- yegg 3y agoThat page is being transparent about how exactly it works, which is why I wrote it. I'm sorry you don't like the words I chose, but they were not chosen to "weasel" out of anything, but to be accurate, which is why I keep quoting them. We can consider more transparency for sure, and duly noted.