Yeah, I’m all for using more different and especially non-US-based search engines, but so many people just accepted this as clear evidence that DuckDuckGo is evil, without giving it a second thought or awaiting DuckDuckGo’s reaction…
Ah, you mean the pages they deemed Russian state propaganda. Don’t have an opinion on that stunt, but yeah, I can see why people would then be anxious about those new changes…
Yeah I guess I wasn’t very specific, of course its fine if people are unhappy and want to change services, but the amount of people that pounced on the omitted results from one torrent site without knowing the cause and just used it for self validation is wat I was meaning.
Hopefully the “DDG is turning into google” crowd can STFU now
Yeah, I’m all for using more different and especially non-US-based search engines, but so many people just accepted this as clear evidence that DuckDuckGo is evil, without giving it a second thought or awaiting DuckDuckGo’s reaction…
Well they did it around the same time as the purge of alt media sites
Ah, you mean the pages they deemed Russian state propaganda. Don’t have an opinion on that stunt, but yeah, I can see why people would then be anxious about those new changes…
This is not the only instance where DDG did something that bothered me. I’m now actively trying out non-US search engines like startpage.com .
Yeah I guess I wasn’t very specific, of course its fine if people are unhappy and want to change services, but the amount of people that pounced on the omitted results from one torrent site without knowing the cause and just used it for self validation is wat I was meaning.
This blame cannot be conflated with what was true in the censorship of Russian news outlets ordered by heinous Western dictatorships.