Privacy-focused company DuckDuckGo is launching a tool to remove data from people-search websites, a VPN, and an identity theft restoration service.
  • unexposedhazard
    330·
    6 months ago

    Dont trust duck duck go with your privacy. Corpos gonna corpo. Sooner or later…

        • Howdy
          180·
          6 months ago

          If it works for you… I agree with the general sentiment of “if its free you are the product”. However, I see kagi come up so often around here that I feel like it’s some astro turfing. I tried it and was not impressed. SearXNG is by far the best search engine I’ve used in a long time and the best part is I am hosting it locally on my PC, traffic is going out a VPN. You get the privacy and the best results possible since its a meta engine using many different engines.

          • lowleveldata
            70·
            6 months ago

            I tried it and was not impressed

            It is better than ddg and Brave, that much I can say. Brave especially have been shit recently.

            • Howdy
              20·
              6 months ago

              Never used brave, I think DDG is actually a pretty decent search engine overall. I use it as my backup to searxng and used it primarily for years now before switching to searxng.

          • Karyoplasma
            50·
            6 months ago

            Didn’t Google nuke SearX? Or did they only nuke public instances?

        • rasakaf679
          140·
          6 months ago

          If you are naive enough to believe that they are not collecting your data. Good for you and your peace of mind.

          • lowleveldata
            60·
            6 months ago

            I feel like it’s a good way to get sued if you straight up lie to paying customers

            • Karyoplasma
              160·
              6 months ago

              Cash out, get sued by angry customers, file for bankruptcy. Who cares about your public image being shattered when you are already gone with the wind?

              • lowleveldata
                70·
                6 months ago

                Well at least that gives them more incentive to stay clean compare to other search engines, no?

        • 4dpuzzleEnglish
          40·
          6 months ago

          These days, paying doesn’t guarantee your exclusion from being the product. The only way to guarantee privacy is to design it into the product.

  • thingsiplay
    210·
    6 months ago

    I don’t trust Fuck (lol typo, it was an accident, f and d are really close!) DuckDuckGo and stopped using it since the “relevant” ads from Microsoft: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/company/ads-by-microsoft-on-duckduckgo-private-search/ I personally don’t trust them.

    Rather use an open source search engine like SearxNG . If you don’t want host your own search engine, then use a third-party hosted one: https://searx.space/ and probably switch from time to time. Sometimes the search results are slower or not as good, but that is a price I pay.

    • lemmyreaderEnglish
      120·
      6 months ago

      FckFckGo. I see what you did there.

      +1 for the SearxNG. That project deserves wide spread attention as far as I am concerned.

    • papaya
      110·
      6 months ago6 months ago

      Exactly this. I read the article in the post and thought it actually sounds like a nice service, but after getting this ad when searching “depression” on DDG last year, I don’t think I’ll ever trust them again lol.

    • Exec
      20·
      6 months ago

      I don’t trust Fuck (lol typo, it was an accident, f and d are really close!)

      FuckFuckNo

    • hedgeOPEnglish
      10·
      6 months ago

      Thank you!🙂

  • iMastari
    30·
    6 months ago

    Another great site that does this and is promoted by Nord VPN: Incogni