- cross-posted to:
- searx
- cross-posted to:
- searx
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Looks like the CEO caught wind and has said they’re going to fix it: https://web.archive.org/web/20200702100513/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23711597
It’s worth noting that DDG has conveniently ignored this “bug” for a year, and it isn’t a one-off incident. DDG has a history of wrongdoing:
They’re only addressing it now because suddenly there is more press on it, and it has reached a point where they’d lose some serious marketshare if they continued looking the other way. It’s disgusting that they were able to collect data for a year after the report was filed.
That’s unsettling…
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i hope an alternative like yacy is created.
yacy is just solr/lucene.
it feels heavy.deleted by creator
searx still send your queries to all the search companies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern-of-life_analysis
searx is a good meta-searchengine and proxy.
