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by yegg 4y ago
First, it is misleading to say our results just come from Bing. That's far from the case in actuality. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31490994 for a more detailed explanation on that. On other search e
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by yegg 4y ago
We will work diligently today to find a way to say something in our app store descriptions in terms of a better disclosure -- will likely have something up by the end of the day. In terms of our app and multi-pronged protection, it isn&#x27
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by yegg 4y ago
No, it is not just a general NDA.
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That does't occur in modern browsers and is actually a privacy feature that prevents your searches from leaking to the sites you click on, generally in very old browsers that need to use our non-JavaScript site ( http://duckd
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by yegg 4y ago
We have a page specifically about helping people switch: https://duckduckgo.com/spread To answer your question though, comprehensive privacy protection prevents data profiles from getting created about you, which in turn pr
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by yegg 4y ago
Not sure what is going on there (will investigate, not intentional), but try https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rt&ia=web & https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rt+ukraine&ia=web
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by yegg 4y ago
The original example was Workplace.com embedding a LinkedIn script.
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by yegg 4y ago
Sorry, I was trying to be clear not confusing :). But no, this has nothing to do with DuckDuckGo servers or sites, whatsoever. This is about completely 3rd party sites that might embed a Microsoft script. The original example was Workplace.
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by yegg 4y ago
That's actually not what we are doing -- see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31491296 for an explanation I just posted.
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by yegg 4y ago
This actually has nothing to do with search. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31490603 for a detailed explanation.
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by yegg 4y ago
People know us primarily for search and our relationship with Microsoft is about search, so it will be assumed by most people this is about search (when it is not, it's about browsers). Additionally the way it is phrased implies Micros
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by yegg 4y ago
Yes it does. It is actually the top result, and also the top results if you search for 'rt ukraine'. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rt+ukraine&ia=web If you are in the EU, though, the EU legally prohibited search e
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by yegg 4y ago
It is hard to title because people assume this is about search (when it's not, so that should be in there), and also people assume trackers get a free pass (when they do not, e.g., 3rd party cookies blocked, etc.) Maybe something like:
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by yegg 4y ago
That is not what we are doing. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31491296 On the search filter bubble, that is very still much what we do. To be clear, unlike some other search engines, we don’t alter search results
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by yegg 4y ago
No, it's really not. What people don't realize about search is things get clicked on in an exponential fashion, with each piece down the page being engaged with about half as much, so nearer to the bottom of the visible page, 100x
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by yegg 4y ago
That's actually not what is happening. 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 outlets are not being removed or their
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by yegg 4y ago
Our product vision is "Privacy, simplified." Since 2018 we've been more than search. Our app puts multi-pronged privacy protection in one package (private search, web protection, HTTPS upgrading, email protection, app trackin
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by yegg 4y ago
This has nothing to do with search. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31490603 . And that's not actually how we make our results either -- our results are actually made anonymously from a variety of sources. In p
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by yegg 4y ago
This title is very misleading (and really should be changed). This is not about search. To be clear, when you load our search results, you are completely anonymous, including ads. For ads, we actually worked with Microsoft to make ad clicks
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by yegg 4y ago
To be clear, when you load our search results, you are completely anonymous, including ads. For ads, we actually worked with Microsoft to make ad clicks privacy protected. From our public ads page, "Microsoft Advertising does not assoc
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by yegg 4y ago
If your browser supports meta referrer, like Tor does, then none of this applies to begin with. You can also set settings via URL parameters: https://duckduckgo.com/params
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by yegg 4y ago
This is not on in modern browsers. From the referenced help page ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31170796 ): ** On modern browsers we accomplish this by adding a small piece of code to our page called Meta referrer. So
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by yegg 4y ago
This is not correct, we do not track our users. This post refers to a privacy feature that actually prevents your searches from leaking to the sites you click on, generally in very old browsers that need to use our non-JavaScript site ( htt
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by yegg 5y ago
That's not actually true. Our site search is having issues, so better to just add the site name to the search, but note that youtube-dl.org is just one page and for other sites (that are essentially vertical search engines) you're
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by yegg 5y ago
Not sure what is going on with those URL params, but I see results just fine at https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Atass.com and in any case an easier way to do things is to not use a site search but just put the domain or nam
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by yegg 5y ago
We don't use third-party scripts on our site and I don't know of any sites using our scripts either.
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by yegg 5y ago
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tass
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by yegg 5y ago
You can also join the waitlist from our Android app. We needed this step to limit people in the beta as we make improvements before general release, and already made an in-app waitlist for our Email Protection and App Tracking Protection be
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by yegg 5y ago
An update that fixed most download issues went out recently -- are you still seeing any issues there? On blocking, it is as comprehensive when it comes to trackers, if not more so -- see comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com
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by yegg 5y ago
Our search engine does not use Google results at all. On the app (the subject of this post), we are actually not forking any browser. From the bottom section on how it is built: "DuckDuckGo for Mac does not fork Chromium (or anything e

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