DuckDuckGo Has Been Compromised

Guest Post by Martin Armstrong

Gabriel Weinberg has violated the trust of myself as well as the integrity of his entire company. I do not care what he thinks about Ukraine. He is obviously is easily influenced by the media and does not look at events with an open mind because BOTH sides will put out misinformation in a conflict. He has no right to censor Russia when what it says merely contradicts what the US says. How does he know who is telling the truth? That is not his job and engaging in censorship thinking what the US says is always true, guess he never looked at the whole Weapons of Mass Destruction that the US used to invade Iraq that was not part of any terrorist movement against the US or the West because Adam was an anti-religious fanatic. Both sides will spin the news in their own favor. We have a right to make those judgments for ourselves.

The EU is also going after search engines that will NOT censor information from Russia. This only makes the truth more impossible to uncover. The Tor browser is one alternative.

DuckDuckGo marketed its search platform as the antithesis to Google. “Our privacy policy is simple: we don’t collect or share any of your personal information,” the company lists on its website. The engine claims not to track data or sell information to advertisers. However, the site has been compromised.

The alternative search engine gained popularity recently after a heavy marketing campaign that included ads throughout major cities, radio, TV, and even Superbowl commercial time slots. Personally, I have noticed that the website has produced what seems to be targeted results comparable to Google. An online user posted the search phrase “where to get” in their browser, only for the search engine to auto-populate every search term surrounding COVID vaccinations. Try it for yourself.

The final nail in the coffin came when CEO Gabriel Weinberg announced that he would begin censoring search results due to “Russian disinformation.” Who gives Weinberg the authority to decide between “misinformation” and facts? The entire point of a search engine that acted as the antithesis to Google was to provide users with all available information, free from any censorship. Provide us with all the facts, and let us come up with our own independent thoughts. DuckDuckGo is no different from the companies it claims to be against, except it has a worse user interface.

Onion Alternatives

https://www.torproject.org/releases/tor-browser-11-0/

Website addresses ending in “.onion” are not similar to normal domain names, and one cannot access them with the ordinary web browser. They direct you to the Tor hidden services found on the deep web. Thus, .onion sites are a part of a deep web that is not perceptible to search engines and standard users. It is filled with websites for users fanatical about their anonymity and online privacy. Countless onion sites include very malicious things, and lots of them are likely to be rip-offs. It is usually recommended to stay away from them. As a browser, Tor is the best for privacy. It’s a links’ directory, and you’ll find links to nearly anything and everything which isn’t available on the clearnet.

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24 Comments
samthere403
samthere403
March 15, 2022 6:39 am

I’ve already switched to the Brave search engine. If anyone knows of anything better please post.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  samthere403
March 15, 2022 6:48 am

Me too. I didn’t even realize Brave had a search engine in it, but it does.

Thaisleeze
Thaisleeze
  Anonymous
March 15, 2022 7:28 am

Ditto until two days ago even though I use their private browser. Switched already

Arizona Bay
Arizona Bay
  samthere403
March 15, 2022 8:35 am

Already migrated from Opera to Brave at home last weekend. Still trying to figure out how to migrate mobile bookmarks.

I liked Opera with DDG. It was good until it wasn’t.

Brewer55
Brewer55
  samthere403
March 15, 2022 9:39 am

Thanks for the tip. I’ve been using Brave for a few years now and had been using Duck duck go. I just switched search engines to Brave. I’m betting soon we will hear it is compromised too as there seems to be an endless supply of Big Pharma or Chinese helicopter money floating around!

Toujours Pret
Toujours Pret
  Brewer55
March 15, 2022 2:32 pm

And if bribes don’t work there are the break your legs – concrete shoes type options.

Twat Waffle
Twat Waffle
  samthere403
March 15, 2022 9:57 am

I, too, switched to Brave Search. Did so when the commercial onslaught began with Duckduckgo, knowing they’d be bending a knee to their money masters.

Tried Tor onion router and browser on my phone. Every time I loaded Tor, an “update,” was installed.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  samthere403
March 15, 2022 10:36 am

i just tried the ‘where to get’ autocompletion thing both with duckduckgo and brave search – the same autocomplete options show up in both.

LoneStar42
LoneStar42
  samthere403
March 15, 2022 1:41 pm

Startpage.com rocks. Provides data, not drama or ads. Has a button to visit sites anonymously. Been using it for years. I use Brave as well. DDG: Go woke, go . . .

Cricket
Cricket
March 15, 2022 7:05 am

DuckDuckGo is DuckDuckGone for me. F*ck them. Get woke, go broke.

Saxons Wrath
Saxons Wrath
March 15, 2022 8:49 am

(((Gabriel Weinberg)))????

Please, if the name and the picture of this simpering Soi-Boi doesn’t scream “Khazarian Mafia Jewry”, I don’t know what else does.

And suddenly, for no reason at all, 109 Nations worldwide expelled the Jews from their borders….

Serves ya right for trusting the Kike….

YMMV…

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
March 15, 2022 8:56 am

So unexpected.

Red River D
Red River D
  hardscrabble farmer
March 15, 2022 9:00 am

Red meat and lead still do their jobs reliably.

Everything is fine!!!

B_MC
B_MC
March 15, 2022 10:18 am

A good review of some search alternatives. Unfortunately, the conclusion is less than optimal….

Is There an Exit from Search Hell?

Let us review some of the more interesting alternative search engines on offer, comparing them on a variety of searches: (a) encyclopedic/general info (are the results relevant/useful?); (b) current news related (unbiased/balanced?); (c) technical (do they actually find good StackOverflow or other forum answers to problems?); (d) other assorted searches, including philosophy, theology, and geography/local.

I will look at Brave and Qwant in detail, and Gibiru, Gigablast, and Mojeek briefly. I will not be reviewing StartPage for the simple reason that they use Google, nor Swisscows or OneSearch, because they use Bing…

My overall conclusion is not good news for people who are interested in neutral and factual information: We do not really seem to have any meaningful choices when it comes to search engines. These are all better than Google, though, in terms of ideological bias.

Sorry. Wish the news were better.

Is There an Exit from Search Hell?

Anonymous
Anonymous
  B_MC
March 15, 2022 1:08 pm

Mr. Sanger should be the innovative center right search engine developer. Seems like he knows his stuff.

Doc
Doc
March 15, 2022 10:24 am

Have a Look. The Press. The Politicians are lying to you (dip shit). And you tanked your company for nothing. Go back home and go to bed. You look tired (and stupid).

Warren
Warren
March 15, 2022 10:43 am

In the early days of the GUI years past before Google there were some really good search engines. Ask Jeeves, Yahoo, All the Web, I really liked All the web,it was a good web crawler.
Then Google came out and killed off all the competition.
Delete Duck Duck Go and never use it again.

GNL
GNL
  Warren
March 15, 2022 4:23 pm

How did Google kill the competition?

Ghost
Ghost
  GNL
March 15, 2022 4:40 pm

GOOGLE’s Creepy Line

Ghost
Ghost
  Ghost
March 15, 2022 5:49 pm

Seriously… this was the week before the big shutdown. Reading it now after all that has happened regarding censorship is sobering.

I’m gonna revise this and share it elsewhere.

Ooze the other one
Ooze the other one
  Warren
September 16, 2022 9:24 pm

Scroogle, back in the early days of Google, was able to strip Google searches of all the crap. But Google kept making their process more and more difficult until Scroogle had to finally cut their losses and bow out of the search engine game entirely.

Are there any web crawlers out there? Is Brave Search a crawler? (I’ll look all this up later. Don’t mind me “writing out loud.”)

MrLiberty
MrLiberty
March 15, 2022 6:27 pm

Fuck, fuck, no.

WTF
WTF
March 15, 2022 8:22 pm

Use Brave. It’s private and extremely fast!

Sam Fox
Sam Fox
September 16, 2022 9:11 pm

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SamFox