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by yegg 3y ago
x-posting from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35980374 (I'm the CEO & Founder of DuckDuckGo.) It is simply not true that we have censored anything or made ourselves "the arbiters of truth." I realiz
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by yegg 3y ago
Note that we added support to remove those Google login pop-ups on third-party sites within our apps/extensions. See https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/privacy/we... for details and https:&#x2
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by yegg 3y ago
No, we're not. See my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35980451 But more to answer the OP, we've been making a lot of investments to improve our results (along with other things) -- high-level updat
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by yegg 3y ago
We have precise user location that is still anonymous to us (by sending a nearish location based on the browser location). Have you tried turning that on? More info at https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/p
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by yegg 3y ago
Good point, will do that.
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by yegg 3y ago
We actually always had a bunch of our own stuff, and still do, as well as work with other partners. For example, the number one module on mobile is local, and we don't get any local stuff from Bing at all. Similarly, the number one mod
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by yegg 3y ago
We are working on it. We also updated the README again to reflect that.
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by yegg 3y ago
(I'm the CEO & Founder of DuckDuckGo.) It is simply not true that we have censored anything or made ourselves "the arbiters of truth." I realized I previously explained how our news rankings work very poorly on Twitter bu
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by yegg 3y ago
For anyone curious, the best search market share data is from Cloudflare. Here is the latest report: https://radar.cloudflare.com/reports/searchengines-2023-q1 . And here is our reasoning of why it is the best: https:&
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by yegg 3y ago
Hi all, Founder/CEO DuckDuckGo here and I hope I can help clear this up. Search syntax filters are still available on DuckDuckGo and we’ve re-updated the help page to reflect that. Nothing has actually recently changed with the way the
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by yegg 4y ago
From the post, "As with all other third parties we work with, we do not share any personally identifiable information like your IP address. Additionally, our anonymous queries will not be used to train their AI models. And anything you
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by yegg 4y ago
Fighting SEO spam is a never-ending arms race. I agree with your sentiment that is is likely to get worse and we need to be prepared for that. I'm not sure yet if LLMs will be significantly useful themselves in stopping it.
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by yegg 4y ago
As noted in the post, the triggering of the feature right now is quite low and so it would generally be expected it would not trigger for most queries. That also means it is easy to find examples of where it would/would not trigger bas
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by yegg 4y ago
Hi all, I'm the author of this post (and the CEO/Founder of DuckDuckGo). Happy to take a few questions about how DuckAssist works, but to clarify what I think may be some confusion from the other comments, we're not just aski
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by yegg 4y ago
We have a strict privacy policy and don't have any user-level data (e.g., search or browsing histories) at all. Our extension is designed to be the "easy button" for privacy, and as such, needs to pack in it a wide variety of
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by yegg 4y ago
Thank you, though I still don't think it is fully clarified, i.e., a "DDG ad" could still be a third-party one. I understand your concern though and again will take it to the team. Popping up a level, though, the goal of our
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by yegg 4y ago
It is simply not true that we have censored anything. I realize I previously explained how our news rankings work very poorly on Twitter, but I subsequently put out a clarification tweet[1] and then we made this help page with a much cleare
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by yegg 4y ago
Founder/CEO of DuckDuckGo here. This title implies we are injecting third-party advertising into web forms, which is not the case. (Edit: that last sentence is now moot since the title has been updated. Thank you.) This is part of the
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by yegg 4y ago
No. There have been many inaccurate stories going around about us. Here's a recent fact check: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/12/02/fac... . And here is the page we put
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by yegg 4y ago
Thanks. On cookie popups: * Our Mac browser already does this, announcement for that was here: https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-for-mac-open-beta/ * It's open source at: https://github.com/duck
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by yegg 4y ago
We have actually been continually working on improving our search results. We're working on a new page to detail major updates on a quarterly basis, which should be live in a few weeks. At the same time, we've been continuously de
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by yegg 4y ago
No, as it says on that referenced help page: "Many sites may occasionally do one or more of these things, but we take action very rarely, only in the most extreme cases...We trust that users can find the right information for themselve
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by yegg 4y ago
Yes, we plan to open source as we come out of beta. It's similar to our iOS app/browser, which is already open source here: https://github.com/duckduckgo/ios
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by yegg 4y ago
Here's a tl;dr for you on "why do I need a new browser" from the post: * Better web tracking protections: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/privacy/we... . This includes a bunch of pr
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by yegg 4y ago
(I'm the CEO & Founder of DuckDuckGo.) It is simply not true that we have censored anything or made ourselves "the arbiters of truth." I realized I previously explained how our news rankings work very poorly on Twitter bu
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by yegg 4y ago
This was indeed hard to describe. When people say they "use Webkit", people seem to take away some kind of direct incorporation of Webkit code. That's not the case here in that we haven't forked anything.
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by yegg 4y ago
Except we're not doing it at all. The above comment references our news rankings help page, which has the most detailed explanation of how they work: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/n
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by yegg 4y ago
No, unlike a VPN, our web tracker blocking all happens on your device. See our help page for details: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/privacy/we... . We are are funded through private search ads.
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by yegg 4y ago
It is not connected to your device id. The waitlist worked on your device by storing a local token, and we never had your device id. On other devices/browsers you will need to authenticate via an email code/link forwarded through
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by yegg 4y ago
I (the author of the tweet you referenced) commented on this subject on this thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32597340 . We didn’t do that, e.g., we actually did not (and do not) censor anything for politica

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