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by yegg 4y ago
We don’t censor results. Unless legally prohibited, you should find all media outlets in our results. Related, we recently published another help page explaining how our news rankings work: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckdu
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by yegg 4y ago
Best would be to report them to us and we can investigate. I see these ones coming up though right now: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=jessesquires.com , https://duckduckgo.com/?q=lapcatsoftware.com , https:&#x2F
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by yegg 4y ago
Yes, please check out the comprehensive help page referenced for the list of web tracking protections we offer by default across platforms, some of which are not offered by related extensions, and most all of which are not offered by most b
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by yegg 4y ago
Warrant canaries are problematic since they can't be trusted themselves due to possible confidentiality restrictions, can be easily misinterpreted, and can also be counter-productive to an in-process court proceeding if you are in an a
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by yegg 4y ago
This is actually about our browser and web tracking protections within it around third-party scripts on other websites. From the post: "Microsoft scripts were never embedded in our search engine or apps, which do not track you. Website
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by yegg 4y ago
That isn't an accurate characterization of what we do now. We have on the order of a million lines of search code at this point and have a lot of talented people working them. As an example, mobile searches are the largest category of
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by yegg 4y ago
They actually never were. We also recently put out a help page explaining how our news rankings work: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/ne... . From that page: "when we apply our own ra
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by yegg 4y ago
Hi, I'm the author of this post and the CEO & Founder of DuckDuckGo. I'm happy to answer questions about it. I hope folks can read the whole thing but in short, the post explains we're expanding our 3rd-Party Tracker Load
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by yegg 4y ago
Hi, I'm the the CEO & Founder of DuckDuckGo. I'm happy to answer questions about this, and here is my short post from today this article is based on, which I'd encourage reading since it is the primary source and the arti
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by yegg 4y ago
What EU-based search engines are you referring to?
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by yegg 4y ago
We are banned in China and have no assets there.
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by yegg 4y ago
I just looked at umatrix, and yes, those look like completely anonymous requests to improving.duckduckgo.com that are being erroneously attributed to originating from that page when in fact they originated from the anonymous search results.
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by yegg 4y ago
I'm not very familiar with umatrix though none others come to mind, and in any case all requests to duckduckgo.com domains are anonymous by design since (as that article notes in more detail) we have our web servers and related applica
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by yegg 4y ago
If you are in the EU, distributing RT (and Sputnik News) is banned in the EU, e.g., see https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/eu-sanctions-google-searc...
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by yegg 4y ago
These are completely anonymous requests that help us improve the search engine. See https://help.duckduckgo.com/privacy/atb/ (also linked to from https://improving.duckduckgo.com/ ) and discussed o
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by yegg 4y ago
No browser can provide 100% protection if for no other reason than the tracker landscape is constantly evolving as it works to evade our protections. We will re-evaluate our marketing messages, though as a comparison look at how the major b
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by yegg 4y ago
The plan is to not accept any such restrictions going forward, and this limited one is the only one we have.
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by yegg 4y ago
No it doesn't. Here's the comment in full: ** We actually do not intentionally censor any news results, meaning media outlets are not being removed or their stories displayed so far down in the results they are effectively removed
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by yegg 4y ago
As said, this isn't about 3rd-party cookies, which our browsers block wholesale (including for 3rd-party Microsoft scripts). 3rd-party Microsoft scripts are also further restricted in our browsers with additional web protections, e.g.,
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by yegg 4y ago
I understand why people are upset with us on this, and we will do better. I know we have to do a lot more to rebuild trust, and I also understand that will not happen overnight. Our goal remains though to provide the most privacy we can in
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by yegg 4y ago
I am very sincere about this and I understand we have to do a lot more to rebuild trust. I also understand that will take a lot of time. I do think the details matter though because based on the comments across the web, most people seeing t
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by yegg 4y ago
Yes, I (CEO/Founder, DuckDuckGo) left a top-level comment responding to the article here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31557587 . Would suggest reading it for a fuller explanation. In short though, you're r
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by yegg 4y ago
I actually left a top-level comment on this post that responds to the article in depth here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31557587 . To be clear, though, we do block Microsoft 3rd-party cookies and their scripts are
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by yegg 4y ago
No, there hasn't been any backtracking on this. The full quote continues "On Google, you get results tailored to what they think you’re likely to click on, based on the data profile they’ve built on you over time." Unlike oth
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by yegg 4y ago
Hi, CEO & Founder of DuckDuckGo here. I see a lot of confusion here too, we are not ranking based on my politics (or anyone's politics for that matter). We actually do not intentionally censor any news results, meaning media outlet
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by yegg 4y ago
Hi, I'm the CEO & Founder of DuckDuckGo. To be clear (since I see a ton of confusion going around about this story), when you load our search results, you are anonymous, including ads. That is, this news cycle is not about our sear
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by yegg 4y ago
(FYI -- this was discussed extensively yesterday at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31490515 ) and I left a comment on that thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31490603 , but below is a new on
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by yegg 4y ago
My goal is to get meaningful privacy protection in the hands of as many people as possible. We learned from extensive research that mainstream people do not want to install multiple things, and yet multiple types of protection are required
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Actually, that's not the case. First, that page is a linked to directly from every Microsoft ad on duckduckgo.com -- it's a public disclosure for transparency. Second, we specifically worked with Microsoft to make our ads privacy
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by yegg 4y ago
It is a random hash (not any kind of user identifier) for security to make sure we don't have an open proxy.

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