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The rest of the world doesn't care about NSA surveillance so 600% doesn't really mean anything and is meaningless. Hell, a lot of people don't even know what Bi
by jister 11y ago
The rest of the world doesn't care about NSA surveillance so 600% doesn't really mean anything and is meaningless. Hell, a lot of people don't even know what Bing is!
- jjar 11y agoExcuse me, I live in England and I use DuckDuckGo - Surveillance and tracking is just as prevalent over here as it is in the US, ever heard of GCHQ?
- themartorana 11y agoLikely even more so. The U.S. is at least making symbolic (if not substantial) changes to laws like letting provisions of the PATRIOT ACT expire, while the UK is secretly making domestic spying legal through secret laws. http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-05/18/gchq-hacking-legal-secret-change-in-law http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-05/18/gchq-hacking-...
- vixsomnis 11y agoIt's not just the UK: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
- chippy 11y agoI also am British and use DDG, but the comment was about the vast majority of web users around the world, who still type google into google to get to google.com
- Aoyagi 11y agoThe rest of the world is what NSA surveillance is about, I believe. Spying on Americans is just collateral damage.
- unfunco 11y agoWe absolutely care; DDG user from Liverpool here. Not just because of NSA surveillance but because of privacy concerns in general, and especially concerns regarding Google.
- ionised 11y agoAlso from Liverpool and agreed on all points.
- NietTim 11y agoIf anything people outside of the US care more about the NSA revelations. Because it's an foreign government snooping in shit that they have 0 business to snoop in.
- chippy 11y agoYou are correct, the vast majority of web users do not care about surveillance. But the early adopters do, and these are the high technologists, the users of HackerNews, and it appears that these are the ones driving the change. The other replies to your comment sadly seem to equate the "rest of the world" as non US early adopters / users on HN. This may or may not lead to the late adopters coming along to DDG in a few years. If they come, it will not be because of privacy matters, or the bang syntax but because a) it would be better and/or b) everyone else is doing it.
- veddox 11y agoGermany is still up in arms about it - Snowden is the cause of the biggest strain in US-German relationships since I don't know when. (1945?)