DuckDuckGo is censorship people like Facebook and Google
Big tech cannot be trusted to police itself: Blake Masters
Mar. 12, 2022 - 3:20 - Arizona U.S. Senate candidate Blake Masters weighs in on big tech censorship by Google and DuckDuckGo, says âwere running out of options.â ( fox news source )
You should probably be more concerned that governments do it and not a specific private company. After all, it can do it.
the government is not even discussed to censor free speech but when it does and a company âprivacy searchâ it is not good
Use anything but
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What do you mean? If Google has censored things recently, it has been because of pressure from Western governments.
Moderator edit: Use some more proper language on a forum thatâs accessible for all agesâŚ
Thatâs as simple as stopping using their services.
If the government spies on you, youâre screwed.
I donât understand how people still think that private companies are more dangerous than governments.
And when governments commit evil acts, they blame private companies�
omgâŚ
governments have been doing this for years and this culminated in the âpandemicâ of bill and antonio fauci
Moderator edit: Use some more proper language on a forum thatâs accessible for all agesâŚ
Okay, Iâm locking this. If we canât use proper language on a forum accessible for people of all ages how do you expect me to moderate a topic like thisâŚ
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I know a previous topic was locked but hear this out-
Duckduckgo has decided to censor the âRussia misinformation.â But there is more to it then that, the reason theoretically why they chose to do this.
Some of the news media, published a news article saying something like âconservatives flock to duckduckgoâ or something like that.
Duckduckgo sees it and they say, we donât want to be associated with âfar-rightâ platforms like rumble or Gettr. They then downrank the âRussia misinformationâ sites to say âHey, see, weâre not like them, but weâre not as data hungry as Facebook or Google, we fall in the middle.â
There are some workarounds to this.
#1. switch to brave, I mean you can literally look at images and news on it without javascript, and unlike duckduckgo it claims to not store search queries.
#2. On duckduckgo, you can still search for the specific Russian news sites.
#3. Switch to Yandex. Not as private but, hey you can get access to (probably more accurate) Russia news. It is a Russia based search engine.
One thing for sure, everyone starts with no tracking and storing, but the DDG has a lot of analytics turned ON and its app also has a lot of extra tracking. People actually MOD the app to get free of tracking.
DDG Mods are available in many places after tracking is removed.
We already have a good option from searx and mojeek also metager is also good now.
What duckduckgo is doing i donât think it is bad or good because it is not a single country it is most countries even so called Democratic countries they sponsores news organizations to do propaganda and misinformation just to hide there governments mistakes and scams now misinformation become so sophisticated that you canât know the difference between both so reader have to be more aware⌠but a search engine canât do any censorship without proper research it will be biased in anyway so i think searx is a good way as it actually combined lots of index and show results btw brave search is also good they are in beta seems good.
It seems that now they also âcensorâ independent media, even if they do not fall under what they would call âRussian propagandaâ. As if the non-independent media were not also propaganda x)
In this case the âcensorshipâ is applied by downranking.
They have also censored piracy websites, in some cases, they have been completely de-indexed.
They have even removed youtube-dl ! not even Google does this.
DDG has gone too far, It certainly goes on my blacklist and I will spread the word.
Now what? Iâm sorry but Mojeek is very bad. Searx is constantly blockedâŚ
I guess Startpage is an alternative, with javascript enabled and some degree of tracking 
And, thereâs also Monocles search, thoughts?
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thoughts?
At first yt-dl versus youtube-dl seemed like a possibility, but no. They are slightly odd sites with pages all over github, and forwardingâŚ
IDK, but RIAA can be vicious, and DDG could be playing defense, on advice of attorneysâŚ
Irony. DDG has lots of related results: (1) "youtube-dl" "duckduckgo" at DuckDuckGo
and while some say âcompletely removedâ,
a lot remains: (2) "youtube-dl" at DuckDuckGo
Engadget makes this point:
âliability for copyright violations might be an issue. The company removed pirate âbangsâ (shortcuts for pirate sites) as far back as 2018, and competitors like Google and Microsoft are already downranking piracy-related results. A move like this could protect DuckDuckGo against costly copyright battles.â Engadget is part of the Yahoo family of brands
yt-dl says:
âWe would also like to heartily thank our main website hoster Uberspace who is currently being sued in Germany for hosting our essentially business card website and who have already spent thousands of Euros in their legal defense.â https://yt-dl.org/
So yeah, search sites play with results for many reasons, including pay from advertisers, and no doubt letters from attorneys and other MIB. Plz let us know if you find something better, that doesnât mess up over Tor.
Edit: You did notice the censorship here, above, for âfamily friendlyâ purposes. Oh the ironies that could not be discussed openly even hereâŚ
You starting with the censorship here meme?