Im a little sketched out by DuckDuckGo lately tbh. Now yes, clearly you could just use Tor + the DuckDuckGo onion link and be fine, but still, you can't trust anything these days.
🚩 Some red flags:
Uses Bing API. (Owned by Microsoft)
Is in USA. (20 Paoli Pike, Paoli, PA 19301)
They have violated their privacy policy in the past.
Collects "anonymous" analytics about you using tracking pixels.
Some Sources:
https://duckduckgo.com/about
https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/duckduckgo.html
https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.quora.com/How-is-the-Bing-API-used-by-DuckDuckGo
@glitcher32 there's a good FOSS search engine I used to that's really good I just can't remember the name of it 🏧😆
@volpit @glitcher32 yeah that one is one of the best ones for sure if not the best.
@glitcher32 @Wetrix Yeah I can confirm. It's a bit too constricting
@glitcher32 @volpit I was looking at sear.xe and that's a really good one. It's the floss one I was trying to recall.
@Wetrix @volpit No no no no no no no, the website SwissCows blocks it for everyone. Its not a censorship issue for only me. Its just something on that website. They filter their searches because they want to and there is no way to turn it off since its built in.