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Re:DuckDuckGo faces controversy over tracking agreement with... by someotherperson on Monday May 30, 2022 @06:56AM (#31557664)
It's really strange how people seem to be going out of their way to defend DDG.

They actively censor content based on political views and they now selectively enable Microsoft tracking. All in the span of like a month. And in return for all of this you still get a half-baked browsing experience.

Someone remind me what value DDG actually provides at this point? It feels like we're witnessing a self-implosion.

Re:DuckDuckGo faces controversy over tracking agreement with... by car_analogy on Monday May 30, 2022 @07:00AM (#31557692)
> They actively censor content based on political views

This is news to me - could you elaborate? Does it go beyond just passively duplicating Bing's censorship due to using their search results?

Re:DuckDuckGo faces controversy over tracking agreement with... by schmuelio on Monday May 30, 2022 @07:23AM (#31557846)
It's basically people thinking that Russian disinformation is a political belief.

People are angry that a search engine (something dedicated to giving you relevant and true information based on what you searched for) is less likely to give you Russian state propaganda because the right wing have associated their political beliefs with that of pure free speech without realizing that such a thing just doesn't make sense in most modern settings.

Re:DuckDuckGo faces controversy over tracking agreement with... by someotherperson on Monday May 30, 2022 @08:16AM (#31558203)
The political beliefs here refer to the CEO's political beliefs, given that this reaction is a consequence of the CEO's views on the conflict in Ukraine. There is a reason why DDG isn't actively censoring Chinese, American or Israeli disinformation as well, and that's because it's not in the CEO's political beliefs to do so.

But since you're trying to muddy the waters, I'm not "right wing" nor do I support the Russian invasion into Ukraine. I would have a similar reaction if CNN, Fox News or BBC were censored as well. I also wholly reject that a search engine's purpose is for "giving you [...] true information" -- I don't need that nor have I asked for it.

Re:DuckDuckGo faces controversy over tracking agreement with... by MarcellusDrum on Monday May 30, 2022 @07:22AM (#31557841)
They deliberately lower the ranking of Russian news sites.[0]

[0]:https://twitter.com/yegg/status/1501716484761997318

Re:DuckDuckGo faces controversy over tracking agreement with... by stinos on Monday May 30, 2022 @07:37AM (#31557944)
At least post the full quote, containing the "sites associated with Russian disinformation." bit.