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For anyone curious, the best search market share data is from Cloudflare. Here is the latest report: https://radar.cloudflare.com/reports/searchengines-2023-q1. And here is our reasoning of why it is the best: https://spreadprivacy.com/search-engine-market-share-data-two-new-sour…

I follow this: https://spreadprivacy.com/mac-privacy-tips/ Not really an exhaustive list, but at least gets you started off.

I'll throw in my recommendation for Ghost if others also want to move their blog to "a site they control and a company they pay": https://ghost.org/ They provide paid hosted services, or you can self-host it as it's free and open source (https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost). Far better than wordpress. You write posts in Markdown. Editor is really nice. Example blogs: https://spreadprivacy.com/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/ https://articles.hsreplay.net/

https://spreadprivacy.com/tag/device-privacy-tips/ These are great! I started using DDG recently and it's been pretty good (aside from the maps). Them providing these tips makes me feel even better about them. On an unrelated note, do you know how people refer to DDG? I've been trying to switch form saying "Google", but "I DuckDuckGo-ed" it doesn't really work so I've had to use "search", but then people don't get to hear about DDG.

The Duck Duck Go privacy blog has some good practical posts from time to time - https://spreadprivacy.com/

I've never seen such a concise and well-articulated statement of this position. Thank you for presenting it! I instinctively disagree with it, but I can't actually provide a coherent and convincing counter-argument, which is probably a sign that I need to think more on it. Thank you for that prompt. The best counter-argument I can think of is: > the claim that only Google (or, "only organizations large enough to require ads as revenue support") can provide these services is false - Open Source solutions (like OpenStreetMap, etc.) provide "good-enough" value. That is, the drop in value from "premium shiny BigTech solution" to "less-fully-featured Open Source privacy-respecting solution" is smaller than the gain in value from the associated privacy-aesthetics. That's a subjective statement that applies on a case-by-case basis (is Google Maps more socially valuable than Google Drive?), and won't be true for everyone - perhaps, not many people. EDIT: for a more fully-described alternative business model - https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-revenue-model/

For the team here at DuckDuckGo, we were excited not only to hit 14M searches in a single day but to also cross the threshold of 10B total private searches served. Of which 4B were from last year alone. We wrote a post covering it in our newly launched blog: https://spreadprivacy.com/10-billion-fc7808c91343 It is always an amazing and humbling moment when we hit a new milestone in our metrics. Our team is so incredibly passionate about what we do. To have people from all over the world rally around this concept of raising the standard of trust online and build this product is one thing. But, for users to endorse that mission at such a growing pace and to share us with their friends and family -- it lets us know we're truly making a difference for people who want to be more private online, and that is incredibly rewarding. So thank you, to all of you who search with us, all of you who know privacy matters, and all of you who work along side us to show that privacy is not a fringe interest but something we can all have!

> How many US companies are donating more than 10k to perl? Or even that much? Craigslist used to donate $100k per month until 2017. Perl has been a member of Google Summer of Code for several years now And Duck Duck Go (based in Pittsburg) recently donated $25k [0] (imo they could have donated more, but something is better than nothing) [0] - https://spreadprivacy.com/2024-duckduckgo-charitable-donations/

Actual article: https://spreadprivacy.com/ai-feature-upgrade/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43279971)

No vibes and there is voluminous evidence, eg many links here: https://spreadprivacy.com/how-does-google-track-me-even-when-im-not-us… as well as Google Takeout itself. Oh and I forgot location data and shopping records, those are huge. So the collected data about you are well documented. Given the data, why would a trillion dollar company leave money on the table? Their shareholders DEMAND they monetize it. There are few forces against this. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/google-says-it-doesnt-sell-your-… Given the 2.095 trillion reasons why this should happen, and few reasons it shouldn't, you should demand evidence it DOESN'T happen. Presumption of innocence is backwards when there are market forces.

Blog post (6 Jun 2024): https://spreadprivacy.com/ai-chat/ (they updated some models since)

For those who don't know, DuckDuckGo provides an app tracking blocker for Android that implements itself as an on-device pseudo-VPN and blocks known tracking services. No containerization/sandboxing, but it's a start. https://spreadprivacy.com/introducing-app-tracking-protection/

DuckDuckGo provides access to 4 different models for free and claims to retain privacy. Unfortunately it doesn't avoid the censorship in models. Here's their blog post: https://www.spreadprivacy.com/ai-chat/ It's since been updated to include newer models: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/aichat/

Hi there, DDG employee here -- here are a few options where you can learn about the Mac browser before downloading: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/get-duckduckgo/get-duckdu… https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-for-mac-open-beta/ https://duckduckgo.com/app (this one detects your device so only works if you're on a Mac)

Also see the "launch" blog updated page: https://spreadprivacy.com/duckassist-launch/

This is why I help my family and friends switch to ddg.gg https://spreadprivacy.com/is-duckduckgo-a-good-search-engine/

The landing page is light on details, from the about page in the browser it is based on Microsoft Edge WebView2 [1] and a blog post from last year [2] says > It’s not a “fork” of any other browser code; all the code, from tab and bookmark management to our new tab page to our password manager, is written by our own engineers. For web page rendering, the browser uses the underlying operating system rendering API. They may be gearing up to go out of beta as I got a notification from their landing page for the first time today [1] https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/?form=MA… [2] https://spreadprivacy.com/windows-browser-open-beta/

Team DDG, anyone? https://spreadprivacy.com/duckassist-launch/

This DuckDuckGo site offers plenty of privacy ideas. https://spreadprivacy.com/how-to-remove-google/ This site gives details of 7 anti-tracking software utilities. https://windowsreport.com/software-stop-online-tracking/

Now you are just lying... DuckDuckGo doesn't profile its users according to their search patterns, and everyone gets the same search results. [1] [1] https://spreadprivacy.com/google-filter-bubble-study/

Actual source: https://spreadprivacy.com/privacy-companies-call-for-vote/

DuckDuckGo Email Protection was previously in private beta. It is now available to all as of today. [1] Summary: > DuckDuckGo Email Protection is a free email forwarding service that removes multiple types of hidden email trackers and lets you create unlimited unique private email addresses on the fly – without switching email providers or apps. [...] [1] https://spreadprivacy.com/protect-your-inbox-with-duckduckgo-email-pro…

For people who aren't sure what this does: https://spreadprivacy.com/protect-your-inbox-with-duckduckgo-email-pro… EDIT: The site has been updated to point to this!

There is a "Learn more" link: https://www.spreadprivacy.com/protect-your-inbox-with-duckduckgo-email…

can't edit URL now, but directly from DDG blog: https://spreadprivacy.com/introducing-duckduckgo-for-mac/

> by blocking trackers before they load (unlike all the major browsers[0]) I certainly like that DDG is pushing for privacy oriented systems and services, but when I read things like the above, and the accompanied page, I become quite sceptical of them. They don't mention Firefox with uBlock Origin, nor do they mention Firefox's Enhanced Tracker Protection (IIRC you get asked if you want to enable on first start up). [0] https://spreadprivacy.com/browser-privacy-protection/

> So where does that leave us? Everything is biased? Yes, humans have biases. There's not a way around it. > What does that mean when applied to duckduckgo's tweet from 2019? Yes, that tweet is obviously a vague marketing message, but if you read the entire quote in context, it was in reference to filter-bubble biases. It wasn't a claim that DDG employees are somehow superhuman creatures immune to human biases. Obviously that's a ridiculous interpretation. Here's the source, in context: https://spreadprivacy.com/why-use-duckduckgo-instead-of-google/

Maybe the real story is "DuckDuckGo Email Protection" [1]? I must've missed this one when it came out. > Get a free, personal @duck.com email address. Emails sent to it will forward to your regular inbox, with creepy email trackers removed. Totally genius! I fear there will be a cat-and-mouse-game but hopefully DDG will keep relatively up to date. [1] https://www.spreadprivacy.com/introducing-email-protection-beta/

One Bitcoin transaction: 6,995,592,000 J DuckDuckGo claims to be carbon negative, btw: https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-goes-carbon-negative/

There's a few alternatives to this: https://www.spreadprivacy.com/introducing-email-protection-beta/ (beta only) https://simplelogin.io/ https://anonaddy.com/ I know there are plenty of others, but I use all the above and found them reliable and intuitive.