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Users upset DuckDuckGo down-ranks sites associated with Russian disinformation

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I have stopped using this search engine as it can’t be trusted any longer. Such an awful precedent. Do people even think of the potential for abuse here and the total arbitrary nature of it all?

How long now befits motivated groups pressure them into down-ranking content they don’t like?

DuckDuckGo has thrown in the towel on neutrality, and has decided the US media organizations which lied about WMDs in Iraq among a cavalcade of other errors occasioning real world consequences are now the arbiters of truth.

It's baffling the CEO of the company has absolutely no idea why his own customers even use his service.

They don't want slightly-less-bad Google.

Three, as far as I am aware, independent in-depth reviews of search engines and search proxies, that purport to offer privacy.

https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexe...

https://restoreprivacy.com/private-search-engine/

https://digdeeper.neocities.org/ghost/search.html

You've got to be kidding me! Neutrality is just as important as privacy for a search engine.

DuckDuckGo was doing a good job building trust for years and just threw all of that away. This was their edge and now they are simply a worse Google instead of being an alternative.

So basically, DuckDuckGo decided to censor search results based on its decision of what is or isn't misinformation. This tendency is extremely dangerous.

In the long term, it's a good thing, it's killing the US monopoly on Internet services. American IT businesses are shooting themselves in the foot. Do they really think they are irreplaceable?

They deplatform, censor, shadowban whoever does not think like a 6 o 7 figures IT engineer in California. I hope some humility will grow over there. You can't live forever by ignoring the entire world.

I stopped using Mozilla products when they called for censorship, I will now search for a DDG alternative.

Qwant, an EU search engine, suffers from the same thing https://twitter.com/QwantCom/status/1498755728877801472

Complying with sanctions and doing other deplatforming are different things. The first is compelled, the second the org's own choice.

I've started using Brave's search engine. It still needs... work.

Yes, it's not very usable yet.

I started to use... Yandex! It's fast and provides very accurate results. Metager seems very accurate but less user friendly. I think it's an opportunity to have a look to the search engine market, thanks to DDG.

By the way, the DDG "bangs" can be replaced by the native feature of Brave where we can associate a search engine to a keyword.

Brave Search has been gradually improving and I'm pleased with the quality of their results as of late. This is the final push I needed to abandon DDG.

DDG is now dead to me.

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