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Re:DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its S... by jeffbee on Friday April 15, 2022 @06:42PM (#31046827)
You're right to be skeptical. They are essentially a client state of Microsoft. Their results come from Bing and they are hosted at Azure. Their privacy policy is just vague enough to not rule out the possibility that Microsoft collects all the stuff that DDG says they don't collect.
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Re:DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its S... by moffkalast on Friday April 15, 2022 @06:46PM (#31046879)
They sure sound like a Microsoft shell company. Because nobody that's fully conscious will ever deliberately use Bing they had to get creative and rebrand it with the usual privacy and safety buzzword slogans that VPNs have perfected in the last years.
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Re:DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its S... by majewsky on Friday April 15, 2022 @09:22PM (#31048159)
The most obvious problem with this conspiracy theory is that Bing became available in 2009, but DuckDuckGo was founded one year earlier.
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Re:DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its S... by ColinHayhurst on Saturday April 16, 2022 @06:10AM (#31051142)
DDG used Yahoo to start with; Yahoo had their own index at that time. DDG switched to Bing later, and since then Yahoo abandoned their index and started using Bing.
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Re:DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its S... by brewtide on Friday April 15, 2022 @10:27PM (#31048700)
Bing is (a) sound of having an idea. Perhaps that idea was DDG. bing.
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