News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its Search Results. Parent comment

Re:DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its S... by throwawaybutwhy on Friday April 15, 2022 @05:25PM (#31046035)
A certain philosopher named Occam would suggest that the simplest explanation for nobody finding out so far is that it is three-letter agencies who might be the ultimate funders and data buyers.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its S... by kevinh on Friday April 15, 2022 @05:29PM (#31046075)
Surely the simplest explanation would be that no one has found out because they don't actually collect the data.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its S... by jstanley on Friday April 15, 2022 @05:30PM (#31046097)
Is that really the simplest explanation?

Or is the simplest explanation that they're not lying and they do what they say they do?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its S... by girvo on Friday April 15, 2022 @06:08PM (#31046510)
That’s a pretty wild misapplication of Mr. Occams blade, I’d think. There are much simpler explanations than that.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its S... by kwatsonafter on Friday April 15, 2022 @06:27PM (#31046683)
A certain philosopher named Occam would suggest that appeals to conspiracy are much harder to substantiate than appeals to incompetence or irresponsibility.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its S... by pessimizer on Friday April 15, 2022 @08:12PM (#31047592)
That's Hanlon. He has a "razor" that says that anyone who maintains plausible deniability should be assumed to be innocently blundering, no matter how much that blunder benefited them.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its S... by Tao331 on Friday April 15, 2022 @10:42PM (#31048823)
"For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience or proved by the authority of Sacred Scripture."

So I guess you're going with interpreting the scripture as "render unto Caesar that [data] which belongs to Caesar"?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its S... by mukesh610 on Saturday April 16, 2022 @12:35AM (#31049525)
I'm interested in the thought process that made you conclude that that is the simplest explanation
[ Parent | on HN ]