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<h1>DuckDuckGo? more like DuckDuckNo</h1>
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2021-11-08 15:33:02 EET |
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<a href=".."> back </a>
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<a href="/"> home </a>
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<a href="/git"> git </a>
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<p>DuckDuckOH... OH NO....</p>
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<p>
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DuckDuckGo (more commonly called ddg) is probably the most popular
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"privacy respecting search engine", but we can debate that, DuckDuckGo
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is a company, not your friend, their ultimate goal is to make money and
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usually companies do that by farming your data.
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<h2>Why I have doubts about DuckDuckGo</h2>
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First things first - as I already mentioned, ddg is a company an their
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goal is to make money, nothing else.
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Then there is a fact that ddg is proprietary so you can be sure that it
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has loads of unwatched vulnerabilities and as nobody can see the code,
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they're probably collecting the same, if not more data about you than
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google as some stupid criminals might use ddg for illegal things so they
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can use the data against them to make $money$.
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After that there's the fact they they leave a lot of data in your
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browser storage with cookies so I feel like they're doing a lot of
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identity storing. Even though it's less than google, it's not as much,
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from my usage expierience duckduckgo leaves ~15 cookies where google -
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~35, but I use gmail for example, so I think duckduckgo as it has no
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other services that I use still tracks you quite a lot.
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<p>
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DuckDuckGo also has !bangs, which is a convenient thing, but breaks all
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BASIC privacy rules... It doesn't even fetch it server side when to be
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private it should, it just redirects you instead with is just a horrible
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idea...
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They say they don't censor anything, but they have to if they don't want
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to get in trouble with the US government, amazon and in general people
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with higher powers than them.
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It's hosted in the US by amazon, even if they didn't collect any data,
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amazon is, which collects even more data than google usually and as it's
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hosted in the US so you don't really get much privacy by law.
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</p>
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<h2>What I suggest using instead of DuckDuckGo</h2>
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<p>What I liked about ddg:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>It was minimal</li>
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<li>Had semi-decent search results</li>
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<li>AT LEAST claimed they didn't collect any data</li>
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<li>!bangs were convenient</li>
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<li>Had a good dark mode</li>
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</ul>
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<p>
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So I looked around and found
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<a href="//searx.space"> searx </a>
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, it's basically what duckduckgo is trying to be. Though note that searx
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is not a search engine, it's
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<a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasearch_engine">
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a meta search engine
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</a>
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, which basically means it fetches results server-side and brings them
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to you, privately.
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<p>
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Searx and its instances are
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<a href="//github.com/searx/searx"> open source </a>
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, they have minimal CSS and javascript, where its back-end is written in
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python, as they're fully open source you can self host it or you can
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trust its instances and use them, I personally use
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<a href="//searx.tiekoetter.com"> searx.tiekoetter.com </a>
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, though it's (the instance) is hosted in the US, which is not preferred
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for privacy respecting search engines.
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<p>
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Searx collects no data about you and they're pretty open about what they
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collect, even your preferences are stored on the back-end, I personally
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don't have any cookies from it from using it for longer than duckduckgo,
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not even any browser data (I.e localstorage, cookies, etc.).
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<p>Searx as far as I can see fills in the holes ddg has:</p>
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<li>Searx is open source</li>
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<li>being a meta search engine gives you better results</li>
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<li>has bangs, but fetched server-side</li>
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<li>It's minimal</li>
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<li>Has a good dark and light modes</li>
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<li>
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<strong> Really </strong>
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doesn't collect any data about you AFAIK
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</li>
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<li>Doesn't market itself as hard as duckduckgo</li>
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<li>Is not a company</li>
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<li>
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Does not censor beyond the search engines you configure censor you
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</li>
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<li>Has a good tor secret service</li>
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</ul>
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And in general seems like what ddg is trying to accomplish, but is
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failing because it has become like every company, power and data hungry
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<h2>Privacy in general</h2>
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There is
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<strong> nothing </strong>
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private on the internet, you can just try to minimise it, which ddg is
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not doing, it still is identifying you, which is the only huge part you
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can really try mitigate. Its tor service is set up semi-correctly, I
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feel like it's still not good enough, I don't trust ddg like you
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shouldn't.
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<p>
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DuckDuckGo is trying to make look itself the best private thing out
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there when it just covers itself with the privacy cloak, when under is
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hiding the same evil its talking shit about, as I said, ddg is a
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company, it doesn't care about you, it's just another power hungry
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asshole that you should not trust and only use in a very isolated box.
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And if you use ddg you can see how marketing and youtubers shilling ddg
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got to you, the same as with
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<a href="/novpn"> VPNs </a>
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, you trusted someone and now you made a choice that hurt you when you
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thought it will help you, never trust anyone but yourself. The art of
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marketing and lying is evil so please, before you use anything, DYOR (do
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your own research) and think to yourself if the person telling you to
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use something is bias, there was money involved, if the product seems
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too good to be true and in general, get deeper into it than just
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trusting someone.
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