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by yegg 4y ago
Addressed in other comment (and comments below it) on this thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32597463
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by yegg 4y ago
The tweet you referenced is no longer the case. See https://spreadprivacy.com/more-privacy-and-transparency/ . We’ve also since open sourced our web tracker block list (all our apps and extensions were already open sour
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by yegg 4y ago
I think you may have misinterpreted how this works. We do not do any page or story or narrative level assessment or fact checking at all, or any fact checking for that matter.
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by yegg 4y ago
The help page referenced is only about this topic and provides the most thorough and up to date explanation of how our news rankings work: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/ne...
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by yegg 4y ago
I am the founder and CEO of DuckDuckGo.
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by yegg 4y ago
That is required to provide all our various web tracking protections: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/privacy/we...
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by yegg 4y ago
Understood, though just to be clear, email field identification happens client side, so we don't get your browsing history. More fundamentally though, we make a browser, and our privacy policy is to never create search or browsing hist
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by yegg 4y ago
FYI - I’m the founder and CEO of DuckDuckGo and responded to this in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32597340 .
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by yegg 4y ago
Not sure if you read the whole thread as it says explicitly "We are not ranking based on any political agenda or my (or anyone else's) personal political opinions. We are also not assessing any individual news stories." That
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by yegg 4y ago
I'm not sure which "app" you are referring to in this case, but generally private search is a key part of being private online. In every browser but Chrome, you can, however, subsequently change the search engine if you want.
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by yegg 4y ago
As said, we may support this in the future. We did a lot of testing and found unequivocally that most people would prefer to have generated addresses automatically available in context within email fields when they use signup forms vs. havi
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by yegg 4y ago
The original link was never meant to be linked to directly -- and has now been replaced with the announcement post.
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by yegg 4y ago
We offer an all-in-one privacy app. The extension/app generates the addresses and autofills them into email forms, and so you need the extension/app for those key parts of the functionality. Once signed up you can use it somewhat
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by yegg 4y ago
I’m the founder and CEO of DuckDuckGo. We are not (and never were) censoring results. I realize I caused the misunderstanding due to own my unfortunate phrasing in a tweet, and since then, how our news results rankings work has been highly
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by yegg 4y ago
We are not (and never were) censoring results. I realize I caused the misunderstanding due to own my unfortunate phrasing in a tweet, and since then, how our news results rankings work has been highly misinterpreted. We (DuckDuckGo) subsequ
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by yegg 4y ago
DuckDuckGo has been profitable since 2014 through private search ads, and our company is not controlled or beholden to venture capital (or VC or other money). Our product vision is an "easy button" for privacy, an all-in-one priva
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by yegg 4y ago
The announcement post is at https://spreadprivacy.com/protect-your-inbox-with-duckduckgo... - a better title might be DuckDuckGo Email Protection Beta Now Open to All (and might be worth switching the link if possible)
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by yegg 4y ago
I did not change any of my Twitter settings today. Also, all I'm doing in that old thread (and this one) is doing my best to explain how our news rankings actually work. Again, currently the best and most thorough explanation is in thi
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by yegg 4y ago
I’m honestly not sure what you are referring to as the contrary or contradiction here. The referenced help page is the most complete explanation of how our news rankings work. Put another way, what would it take to convince you?
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by yegg 4y ago
Recently the National Advertising Division looked into our privacy claims and found them supported, see https://bbbprograms.org/media-center/newsroom/duckduckgo-pri... & https://www.mondaq.com/
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by yegg 4y ago
I realize that due to own my unfortunate phrasing, how our news results rankings work have been highly misinterpreted since then. I subsequently put out a clarification thread ( https://twitter.com/yegg/status/15156
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by yegg 4y ago
We (at DuckDuckGo) actually have no current relationship (or commercial deal) with Debian. They did this on their own. That is, there is no revenue share here. Also, we no longer use the Amazon affiliate program, or Yahoo for that matter, a
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by yegg 4y ago
Yes.
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by yegg 4y ago
Yes, that can have an effect. To the parent question, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32361888
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by yegg 4y ago
Yes, we are constantly working towards more transparency in everything we do. More generally, from the new help page, "A search engine’s primary job is to rank results. In other words, search engines try to put results that most quickl
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by yegg 4y ago
We've invested many tens of millions of dollars in search technology and continue to do so. Local was just one example, chosen because as noted it is the largest category of searches.
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by yegg 4y ago
All requests to improving.duckduckgo.com are anonymous. We have a help page explaining how that works here: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/privacy/at... . From that page, "To be clear, this
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by yegg 4y ago
Probably best is the 'Share Feedback' button on our SERP, though we're also listening on social channels.
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by yegg 4y ago
We do index many things (see related comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32360874 ). We do not remove any results ourselves for political purposes and in fact we have been banned in China for many years for that
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by yegg 4y ago
This is a new help page, and so it is just a first step in more transparency on this issue. That said, what you're referencing in the page applies extremely rarely, currently to less than 0.1% of news websites, and it is expected to st

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