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| DuckDuckGo not all it's quacked up to be |
| 2023-01-20 |
| [Breitbart] DuckDuckGo, the search engine that bills itself as a privacy-centered alternative to Google, but appears to censor conservative news to an even greater degree than its giant competitor, has been dinged by a privacy ratings service for lacking transparency. Neutronian’s annual Data Privacy Scores have placed DuckDuckGo, which monetizes its services through Microsoft-owned Bing, in the bottom 10 percent of companies for data privacy, partly because of its weak transparency. "DuckDuckGo, a search engine marketing its services based on privacy, but monetize services through Bing, got dinged for lack of disclosure and transparency," Timur Yarnall, CEO at Neutronian, told MediaPost. DuckDuckGo has long presented itself as the plucky, values-driven alternative to Google. But the search engine appears to censor its results just as much, if not more, than its Big Tech rival. Like Google, DuckDuckGo has a News Tab, where Breitbart News appears to be completely excluded. Searches for the exact string of a Breitbart News headline in DuckDuckGo’s news tab yield no results. The Daily Caller and Newsmax also appear to be completely banned from the News Tab. Google censors conservative media too, as Breitbart News has extensively covered. But DuckDuckGo seems to be no better. The search engine’s CEO has publicly boasted about "down-ranking sites associated with disinformation." |
| Posted by:M. Murcek |
| #5 I switched to DDG a few years ago as the anti-Chrome and even anti-Firefox, but once I heard about their censorship program, I dumped them for Brave. P.S. - I fooking hate Bing and Edge. |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2023-01-20 20:12 |
| #4 All major American Search Engines that I know of, now run chromium under the Hood, including Brave, and even including MS's Bing. Chromium - although open source - is an Alphabet / GOOGL product. Alphabet / Google deserves no trust. |
| Posted by: mossomo 2023-01-20 12:45 |
| #3 "DuckDuckGo has a News Tab" You've just asked them to make a choice for you, and then complaining when they choose. (Frankly, I don't trust any of them. But Really.) |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2023-01-20 09:56 |
| #1 No one search engine should ever to be trusted. Each should be checked against the other. Even Dogpile and 100searchengines all became a little slanted and flaky some years ago. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2023-01-20 06:52 |