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Re:DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its S... by GekkePrutser on Friday April 15, 2022 @06:42PM (#31046822)
DuckDuckGo was never meant to defeat spying by three-letter-agencies.

It's meant to protect us from tracking by advertisers.

I don't think it makes any sense for a three-letter-agency to run it. They can just NSL duckduckgo. They obey the law, as this news item shows clearly.

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Re:DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its S... by autoexec on Friday April 15, 2022 @09:35PM (#31048262)
I agree. Can't dismiss the possibility since anything advertising itself as a service to protect your privacy could make a very nice honeypot for the state, but there's a market for pro-privacy services that private companies are happy to serve and nothing stopping the state from just taking whatever that want from them anyway.
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