@kev @markosaric #DDG has always been falsely positioned. Their whole game is sell the perception of privacy. http://techrights.org/2020/07/02/ddg-privacy-abuser-in-disguise
@resist1984 You might be right, however my intention of using #DDG is not primarily privacy, but rather diversity.
Even if it is collecting information, I'll still gladly use it, in order to not use the Google search engine. Compared to many others, it offers great search results, is fast and has some neat customization options.
@tobtobxx @markosaric @kev if you don't care about privacy or ethics, just diversity, DDG is still not the answer b/c it's giving you Bing results, and Bing is the same index used by most 3rd parties (DDG, ecosia, qwant, swisscows, everyclick).
@kev @markosaric @tobtobxx Google's index is bigger than Bing's. If by "diversity" you mean to avoid the filter bubble, startpage.com will give #Google results w/out the filter bubble. Even more diverse is to use a searx instance that sources from google, bing, and other crawlers like mojeek, metager, & gigablast.
@resist1984 Oh, sorry, I just now saw the 1st answer. Yeah, IK, but additionally to being small, they hit comfort well too. So maybe it'd be right to switch, but I'm not too eager about it now.
@tobtobxx @markosaric @kev #DigitalOcean is a bit of a monster. It's a corporate tech giant and it's also #Tor-hostile. I certainly avoid #MACFANG but if I had to choose one of them Google is the lesser of those evils in terms of ethics. MS and #Amazon have reckless disregard for human rights.
@kev @markosaric @tobtobxx The best search engine is https://crimeflare.wodferndripvpe6ib4uz4rtngrnzichnirgn7t5x64gxcyroopbhsuqd.onion/ b/c it doesn't feed #MACFANG & it filters out #CloudFlare results. If you must use clearnet, searx.disroot.org is worth a look.
@resist1984 By 'diverse' I meant supporting smaller options (like using #FF instead of sth Chrome-like). Sorry for the unclarities.
That's also the reason I'll never use AWS/GCP/Azure, but rather #Linode / #DigitalOcean.
@kev @markosaric