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DuckDuckGo Donates $300K to Raise the Standard of Trust Online(spreadprivacy.com)
340 points by AdamSC1 10y ago|91 comments
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by AdamSC1 10y ago
This is an interesting project. As someone who has struggled up and down with weight at different times in my life I know having structure has been a huge benefit. Having plans that fit my needs is the most challenging and offloading that w
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by AdamSC1 10y ago
In a lot of cases their clients are businesses who bulk buy the keys, brand them and provide them to their customers either for free or at a discounted price. Those companies are usually financial services, online games with monthly subscri
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by AdamSC1 10y ago
Does anyone have insights on how to refine this to only monitor specific elements of the page rather than the entire page? I may not care if they change a template but would care if they change a price or a warrant canary etc?
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Ask HN: Which tools or products do you wish had a good FOSS equivalent?
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Ask HN: What do you actually care about in a web host?
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by AdamSC1 10y ago
This is a great point. As I've noted a few times, our surveys were conducted with different question sets for every browser that made note of different features and warnings. We also took that into consideration when aggregating the re
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by AdamSC1 10y ago
Yup! I think we were pretty clear about that from the get-go. Giant duck at the top and everything. It's part of our overall mission to raise the standard of trust online. We're nothing if not transparent on this!
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by AdamSC1 10y ago
Your private mode searches may not be ones that have ads for them, those sites may not use Google's re-marketing offers, the re-marketing may be offered via cookies or if they fall into an 'adult' category then you are going
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by AdamSC1 10y ago
You're right there. In this whitepaper we had different questions for each of the browsers to make sure this distinction was noted. However, users still in general think that private browsing modes do things like prevent their IP addre
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by AdamSC1 10y ago
Great questions and valid points. Every bit of data should be taken with a great of salt as no study is perfect. We've done the best possible to be statistically sound and disclose anything that may bias that. Initially we started this
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by AdamSC1 10y ago
That's the problem we tried to outline in this paper. If you ask the average person what "private" should mean in this context it turns out they believe it is a large set of features providing total protection. To a tech-savv
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by AdamSC1 10y ago
Hey there, DuckDuckGo employee here. Would love to know why you feel our affiliation calls that into question? In the the whitepaper we disclose the full methodology, and each statistic has a margin of error calculated and added in. Feel fr
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by AdamSC1 10y ago
There are plenty of things a browser can see without being logged in. Consider checking this page: http://webkay.robinlinus.com/ Private Browsing simply prevents cookies and nothing else, and for the average person we find
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by AdamSC1 10y ago
DuckDuckGo employee here - I ran the survey we used in this. We had a separate question for users who noted that they used Firefox that spoke to the specific cases for that browser. The final whitepaper is browser agnostic, and these are th
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by AdamSC1 10y ago
As a 'marketing person' I have to starkly disagree with this theory. No marketing person worth their weight in salt thinks that a generic TLD is a "great brand". Branding is quite specifically a matter of owning mindshar
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by AdamSC1 10y ago
No concern here. While we don't disclose the figure our CEO has publicly noted that we are indeed profitable: http://fortune.com/2015/10/09/duckduckgo-profitable/
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by AdamSC1 10y ago
You could return to the neutral non-branded term of 'search' it.
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by AdamSC1 10y ago
Hey Asb, That's a great idea - I'm not personally involved in the feedback process, but I'll certainly bring this up to the relevant team!
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by AdamSC1 10y ago
Hi Gingerlime, Thanks for the suggestion. Part of the reason we don't do this is the returned search results on Google are Google's commercial property. To use them in such a capacity would require us to reach a commercial agreeme
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by AdamSC1 10y ago
Hi yclept, we understand the frustration! We're always exploring our options here. There are other Android browsers that do/can include us!
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by AdamSC1 10y ago
As some others have mentioned you can check out https://duckduckhack.com/ our open-source community that powers our Instant Answers (the answers that appear before the search results/ads). Our community has helped us p
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by AdamSC1 10y ago
At DuckDuckGo we've got open-source Instant Answers that currently pull in information from over 1100 sources: ( https://duck.co/ia ) If you know of a good data source for scheduled flights you can easily contribute an I
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by AdamSC1 10y ago
For the team here at DuckDuckGo, we were excited not only to hit 14M searches in a single day but to also cross the threshold of 10B total private searches served. Of which 4B were from last year alone. We wrote a post covering it in our ne
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by AdamSC1 10y ago
Hey Phil, DuckDuckGo employee here - Be sure to use the 'feedback' button that you find on the search results page whenever you feel a search isn't up to standards. Our team has been working hard at increasing relevancy, but
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by AdamSC1 10y ago
Thanks for the great suggestion. We're currently exploring ways to get the 'why' message out there more. I'll certainly bring it up with the team :)
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by AdamSC1 10y ago
ddg.gg or duckduckgo.com You can also set it as default in any major browser either manually or using one of the extensions.
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by AdamSC1 10y ago
We always welcome more contributions. We crossed 1000 Instant Answers this year and they make for some wonderful experiences!
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by AdamSC1 10y ago
Disclaimer: I work at DuckDuckGo so I'm a bit bias. I won't turn this into a sales pitch, but here are a few common misconceptions people have about privacy and search. 1) Many people don't realize that tracking isn't ju
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by AdamSC1 10y ago
Return should be "Get to the Chopper" and "I'll be back" should be a while loop - other than that I love this.

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