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

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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.

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