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 @Wetrix Another follow up, sorry for the spam.
These are the cons I found of it.
They will perform targeted surveillance on a person if they get a valid court order.
It also has a filtered search so I can't watch any damn porn without it stopping me from searching it saying "the entered word is not allowed for under 18 year olds, since we have decided on the protection of minors".
@Wetrix @glitcher32 In this case he'll have to try with a #VPN I think?
@glitcher32 @volpit oh really? Sounds like you live in the UK where they're trying to ban porn?
Which is pretty ridiculous when your government is now telling you what your aloud and not aloud to search on the internet. 🔎🙄