#Cloudflare has now surpassed MitMing *1/3rd* of the world's websites, controlling a staggering 34%. And yet privacy seekers naively continue to use so-called "privacy focused" search engines like #DuckDuckGo, which neglects to filter out Cloudflare sites from the results.
@resist1984 A search engine should not filter ANY sites from the results...
@datenschutzratgeber If you know of a client-side app that can push junk results down to page 20 so the server can send /all/, I'd be keen to know about it. Until then, we count on search engines not just to find shit but also to organize by putting the best results in view and hide the garbage. Research has shown that a link in search results is *twice* as likely to get clicked than the link below it.
@datenschutzratgeber to say "A search engine should not filter ANY sites" grossly misunderstands the purpose of a search engine. If a search were to return the whole index known to the engine, you would learn very quickly the value of filtering search results. Filtering is the core activity of what search engines do.
@resist1984
I remember in the 90s we used to have applications that filtered results from several search engines. It was considered better to check several search engines depending on what you were searching for.
@datenschutzratgeber
@onepict @resist1984 So basically meta search engines?
@datenschutzratgeber @onepict just like DDG is a metasearch engine, so would be any app that harvests results from other engines. Analogous to a search app would be using #YaCy perhaps in combination with searx, but those tools don't have a "filter out Cloudflare" switch.. it would still need to be created. It's feasible but in the end doesn't solve the problem of getting loyal #DDG users off false-privacy.
what shit is datenschutz?