• SudoDnfDashY
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    I personally use Metager. Open source, and funded by a nonprofit. Its also carbon neutral which is really nice.

    • @pinknoise
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      83 years ago

      There cool and around since forever. Sadly according to their privacy policy they forward parts of user agent and ip to third partys to show “non-personalized ads”. But you can use them via their onion service :)

    • IngrownMink4
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      You’re right, it’s a very interesting search engine and it complied on its promise to be good for the environment.

        • IngrownMink4
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          13 years ago

          Other idea would be helping to translate it.

          How can I help with the translation?

          • dinomug
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            23 years ago

            Is going to be very difficult. Despite being an open source project, they are very closed to collaborations.

            • IngrownMink4
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              23 years ago

              Okay, ty for the info. I was interested in translating into Basque too :'(

      • @pinknoise
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        From the “website carbon calculator”:

        When a website is loaded, the energy used is roughly proportional to the amount of data transferred.

        Thats not entirely true, maybe they should measure the power their useless animations and javascript waste too -.-

  • @ttmrichter
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    103 years ago

    There’s a certain irony to a page that’s accusing DDG of being “a privacy abuser in disguise” whose site causes this:

    • @gmate8OP
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      33 years ago

      I looked at the information they provided, and Gabriel Weinberg really made NamesDB.

      • @ttmrichter
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        63 years ago

        I looked at the malformed certificate and said “I’m not stepping past this point”.

        I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make here. I’ve written code that is still used by SWIFT to this day. Does that make me a banker apologist? (Also which of approximately 10,000 projects named NamesDB?)

        • @pinknoise
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          93 years ago

          The certificate isn’t “malformed” it’s just not signed by one of the holy approved certificate authorities.

          • @ttmrichter
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            93 years ago

            Allow me to rephrase.

            I looked at the dodgy certificate and said “I’m not stepping past this point”.

            • @pinknoise
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              53 years ago

              You certainly didn’t miss anything, but the certificate isn’t any more dodgy than that of any other site.

              • @ttmrichter
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                33 years ago

                Self-signed certificates are too silly to bother with. Might as well go straight http if you’re going to go self-signed.

                A CA-signed cert reduces the chance of a bad actor between me and the target site. A self-signed cert opens the door to trivial MitM attacks.

                • @pinknoise
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                  A CA-signed cert reduces the chance of a bad actor between me and the target site.

                  Because bad actors that can hijack your traffic are unable to get a fake certificate signed?!

                  A self-signed cert opens the door to trivial MitM attacks.

                  How would that be?

  • @leanleft
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    it’s been i have seen it pushing link tracking into their html(non-js) site. that has prompted me to quit. i’m using qwant for the time being although it kinda sucks for things that i research.
    i use a searx instance(google) for one of my browsers on mobile.
    the best solution is going to have to be to build something custom.

    • @gmate8OP
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      63 years ago

      And it should be custom, beautiful, and open source.

    • DessalinesA
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      33 years ago

      Is it difficult to self host?

      • @TechieDamien
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        23 years ago

        No, just clone the repo, copy and alter the config, use their uwsgi config and reverse proxy with your web service

  • @onlooker
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    63 years ago

    Oh no, not techrights. DDG is privacy unfriendly, I’ll give the article that, but the website itself is a cesspool. Don’t take my word for it, just… browse the website for a minute or two. Techrights’ idea of content is cringey memes and inflammatory content, which ranges from sensationalist bullshit to straight-up misinformation.

    • kazutrash
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      yeah i heard Michael from Destination Linux is running SearX. guess ima try it

  • RandomSomeone
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    I stopped reading on “capitalist”. If you see the words “capitalist” or “communist” or something similar, close the tab, the content is rarely worth it