With pressures mounting from Google’s own employees, regulators, & competitors, @MiaD says a de-Googled world, where Google is no longer the default, is on the horizon.
Want to join the movement? Start living Google-free today:
https://spreadprivacy.com/how-to-remove-google/
Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1400448942853083146
Can you explain why?
(Just out of curiosity.)
I guess it’s because it’s hosted in the US on Microsoft Azure
More than that, it doesn’t have its own indexes, most of them come from ms bing, see: https://lemmy.ml/post/43595/comment/22034
Has DDG mentioned what data, if any, they send to those indexes? I’m just wondering if, say Bing, just sees a single “user” for DDG with all the searches. Then at least your query is obfuscated among all the rest. Still not ideal, but better than Google anyway I think. I also think that’s how Searx works.
I hope they do. But I can’t really tell. Searx is another thing, since its code is FLOSS, and there are instances on different countries…
Oh yeah, forgot about that. Thanks for linking this thread though.