In case anyone was wondering, Weinberg is a pushover with no constitution. I once asked him why #DuckDuckGo doesn't filter out privacy-abusing #Cloudflare sites & it triggered him. He had no sound defense.. no good answer for it. It's clear that he simply does not have the guts to truly deliver a privacy-respecting search engine. He's fixated on serving normies who are privacy-naive.
@resist1984
A privacy respecting engine mustn't spy on me, that's all. Filtering out any results using any criteria is the same BS as Google's censorship. My security is my own business, search engine should deliver me information, not decide what is good or evil.
@VikingKong You've set a very low standard of privacy by disregarding privacy abuses in the results. Filtering results is what search engines do; it's the whole point. If a search engine were to return to you their whole index you would learn very quickly the importance of filtering. A search engine that gives you results you don't want isn't serving you well.
@VikingKong And if you actually want to deal with #Cloudflare sites, then at best you're only pretending to favor privacy. To give your attention & traffic to a privacy abuser is to feed the abuser. Even if you think you've managed to work out how to mitigate disclosure throughout your connection, you're still feeding a privacy abuser by giving them attention.
@VikingKong If you're not really committed to privacy, then I have to say #DDG might be a perfect fit for you. The whole business model of #DuckDuckGo is based on privacy propaganda.. to sell the illusion of privacy. If you want a search engine that's committed to privacy, you use Ss.
@VikingKong Just as DDG financially supports #Microsoft. Even if Microsoft does not exploit the opportunity to see your IP when connecting to Azure-hosted DDG, & then match that IP to your query that DDG passes to Bing, you're still helping DDG feed Microsoft (who doesn't serve DDG for free).