@@Emerald_Forge banned Russian accounts. P.S. only of the people who work or used to work in the sanctioned Russian companies. The former employees can appeal the ban.
Your right...because if you don't the the department of homeland security will come knocking at your door to "politely" tell you that you better well censor whatever it is you are talking about or "allowing to run amuck" or else they'll "have to take action." They bullied microsoft regarding minecraft with that and they had to put in a chat report system, and then they bullied the VRC shareholders devs and COMPANY into forcing them to implement EAC as well. All this within a month to a few weeks of each other. It's absolutely ridiculous and has made me seek out new ways to get around such a f0cking waste of tax dollars as well as trying to figure out a way to sack these nosey sacks of shit for interferring and taking away "rights" in the name of defending against "domesticated terrorism in our backyard."
Oh they let microsoft track you since they had a deal. So if you wanna pretend that's not what they were defending, you should know they failed with the excuse too. Lol
I love how corporations always know what's best for us, what information is true or false, what is propaganda and what isn't. Life is good when you don't have to think for yourself and others do the thinking and the forming of opinions for you. I'm sure this can't be abused.
The UA-cam downloader isn't even piracy. It uses the same requests that browsers make. The only difference is that the video gets streamed to a file instead of the screen.
Absolutely. For creators the only difference is if you hold on the video - as they can’t pull your copy down, like they can do on the main platform. Aside from that, it’s just an ad-blocker. Only if you do something else than just watch it once you are doing something the creators didn’t intend you to do.
@@catcatcatcatcatcatcatcatcatca That's the point: they don't want copies of UA-cam videos floating around on people's harddrives. They want to control all the information. They want to be able to purge videos and know that the information is gone, forever. Local copies prevents that.
It's not even that different to screen recording the entire video, people can steal content either way but I guess Google would want to reserve the video download to premium users
Do you guys remember the old days of the internet where "search engines" were like sites categorized by topic, then you clicked on a topic and there were sites ordered alphabetically?
good times. granted asking a specific question woudln't gave your "desired" results. but since we're bound to read the whole paper to understand the topics, it made us understood things better.
@@Uberkist then you're not old enough. The biggest(and most probable that you know by name) was yahoo. There were many categories with subcategories that would list many sites.(as google didnt exist)
this generation destroyed the hell out of everything i liked from amusment parks to the internet like locusts destroy move on destroy rinse and repeat.
@@ShiroIsMyName fr I’m gen z too and I see mostly millenials and genXers shaping all the sociopolitical landscape. That, and also grooming other less fortunate genZers to be the androgynous, mentally ill, mentally challenged consoomers they want us all to be, for some reason.
Did you really say "education" or did you actually mean indoctrination? Schools nowadays aren't actually "educating" anymore, they're indoctrinating them.
@@godstenrules yeah that's their point. that censoring what books kids can read is not the right way to protect kids, actually teaching them critical thinking skills is, so that when they come across some bad information, they can recognize it and not get sucked in. education > censorship
School i went to has a banned books section, annd a banned books day lol its a very different school lol. Still not the best school at all, its american so trash education and learning system, but better then most in this disgrace of a country, more of a corporate union protecting corporations right to absolute authority
@@saramaeks9826 school would rather teach the kids the opposite ideology than to think for themselves. A critical thinker is more scary to them than a "wrong thinker". It's because you can always scream at the wrong thinker to stroke your ego than to debate a critical thinker and realise he's not buying it but he can.
I swear every time there’s an app or a search engine etc that’s actually good someone or something comes along and decides to destroy everything that made it good to begin with.
@@Popcorn_Pillow its a popular image from a youtube video called juul cat, if you go to that video you can see hundreds of people with this same image.
Ah, Brave. Their VPN collects data just like other services, except it turned out they send this information to governments if they think you're doing something wrong, instead of companies. Way to go
I give it a few years before Brave ends up falling in the same pithole, all these 'privacy first' companies always start with that goal but once the recognition and money starts coming in things change fast. Such a sad faith for Duckduckgo, so much respect destroy so fast.
I've never followed the duckduck origin story, but I always thought it's about privacy, not defending freedom of speech or piracy. And filtering your search results doesn't mean they're fucking with your privacy, all it takes is blacklisting certain websites from their index. Privacy left intact. It's a shitty thing to do and they will suffer for it, but they never sworn to destroy the Big Tech.
I really wish people would stop trying to censor propaganda and start teaching people how to recognize the traits/tools that propaganda uses to manipulate people, like logical fallacies and such...
tall order to fill. that cuts both ways, you see. corpos and governments have zero interest in this. schools also aren't a place to learn anything besides be an obedient little slave. especially in america. at their core, they remain the industrial-era prison work camps rich factory owners wanted them to be. only individuals/entities without the objective of gaining/retaining money and control would seek to educate the populace against brainwashing and propaganda.
We can't do that! If they can spot propaganda that mean's they'll spot OUR propaganda! /s There's a reason USA schools don't teach kids to critically evaluate media. It'd be counter-productive.
It always starts with the least controversial things - fighting misinformation, saving the children, stopping racism, etc. (I say least controversial because anyone who can see the writing on the wall and speaks up about it is quickly assumed to be a supporter of terrible things and immediately shot down). The problem is that once there's a precedent for the use of power, it's almost always expanded upon until it becomes normalized. So, it will just keep happening again and again.
They're not doing this because they want to, actually, DuckDuckGo devs are actively working on restoring torrenting site search results as well as the UA-cam-dl site. DuckDuckGo simply uses Bing as an indexer, which means that because Bing just started censoring torrents and UA-cam-dl, they disappeared from DuckDuckGo too. Mental Outlaw is right to criticize this happening, but he's wrong to claim there are any ulterior motives on the side of DuckDuckGo here.
gosh darnit, every times someone claims it's for "protecting the children" it's ALWAYS the old switcheroo where they are trying to pass some spooky shite
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all." H. L. Mencken US editor (1880 - 1956)
Given that DuckDuckGo mostly pulls search results from Bing anyway, I’d say there’s a really strong chance that DDG didn’t go anything in this instance, and that instead it was Microsoft who censored the search results and de-indexed the sites, rather than DDG.
man screw Bing, I started a new tech website 2 months ago and recently wrote an article about the Instagram alternative Russia is working on. I took extra care not to sound positive towards any side but 2 days after that Bing just hammered my website. since I'm new and Google is much more competitive I lost the source of 99% of my traffic.
@@aymanabdullah7608 It's always like that since cold war bombing Donbass by kiyv is good bombing kosovo by Serbia is bad us want you to be on one side,not thinking logically not going deeply into details
With respect, that's irrelevant. This may or may not be DDG's fault and if you wanna rag on Gabriel Weinberg vs. Microsoft, maybe this is your excuse to do so, but in the end it doesn't matter. If you expected DDG to be a safe, unfiltered search engine, it's not. It doesn't make the search engine useless, it just makes it somewhat less useful.
I always had this gut feeling that DDG was just trying to take Google's place and Brave Google Chrome's because of what it implies (e.g. power, control, etc). The heavy marketing campaigns, the slimy tactics they resorted to, the virtue signaling, the enforcement of their ideologies with total disregard for their user base... It all tells the tale of corporate entities hellbent on getting their share of the pie.
@@vivaene I wouldn't call bravery an ideology. I would call it a virtue. Virtues are simple to express, ideologies are more complex, and worldviews are the most encompassing and difficult to explain. Ideologies are where there is some danger. They are broad enough to get people to adhere to it but narrow enough to explain easily. Virtues being nearly universal, makes it hard to go to war over the virtue itself. Is there any society on earth that values cowardice instead? You certainly couldn't have a war between one country valuing bravery and the other cowardice. The country valuing cowardice wouldn't get a single kill. The country valuing bravery would commit genocide unless they were tempered by the virtues of kindness and mercy.
"Instead of censorship, they should teach how to stop propaganda". Of course the politicians that make the laws that regulate education would never educate the population about the manipulation tricks they also use.
@@victorhugo-wo2ci It's about sending a message. If the Brave devs have even a two-digit IQ they should be able to see what will happen if they follow the same route. And let's face it search engines like DDG weren't being used by normies, so now that they screwed the alt-techies Brave and other engines will pick up the refugees and ought to be able to figure out we'll jump ship as soon as we smell the same BS.
@@capSAR Doesn't matter. DDG censored because of Ukraine. They're now actively and intentionally censoring "misinformation". That alone is enough reason to not use them, regardless of this specific video.
@@J43rv1 its worse, everyone and their dog understands google spies and censors. But when you promote yourself as an anti Google, pro privacy, apolitical search engine, then do this, its worse.
I wouldn't say as bad as Google but yeah it's bad. I use Brave search now and it's objectively a garbage search engine, when I can't find something I go from Brave to DDG to Google. The only thing Brave seems somewhat okay at is finding documentation for programming languages but that's one of the most simple things for a search engine probably.
The big brain time in this is: Some people like me didn´t know about youtube DL, and because the GENIUS duckduck GO sensored it, now i know what it is, and i am going to tell all my friends about that beautiful thing.
@user yup, that one doesn't have a throttled download rate and actually allows downloading videos in a few minutes, rather than having to wait several hours.
Ah yes, the beauty of the Streisand Effect. What's sad is that those in positions of power still have not seemed to figured out why censorship never works. They want to lecture us on morality and they look down on us as idiots but they have not yet been able to understand the basic psychology of the human mind.
As someone just learning about all this stuff, and a graphic designer, I knew as soon as you mentioned yandex, you were going to say reverse image search. It is remarkably better than any other on the net, and returns 5 times as many results that are 5 times as accurate. I use it everyday at work when I’m trying to find higher quality images, obscure logos and photos, and finding fonts I cannot find with other tools.
You are so right, when you allow governments or companies to do something because of a crisis, they never stop doing it even if the crisis ends. Here gov. started collecting additional earthquake taxes after a devastating earthquake and they've been collecting it since 2000.
i stopped using duckduckgo as soon as they started censoring what they considered "russian propaganda", i knew at that point they would censor whatever they disagreed with
I have recently noticed that DuckDuckGo's search results are exactly same as Bing's (if not exact, then very very close, even the ordering). This is very sussy.
I have been testing this on DDG for a few days now since I saw this article, and searching for file sharing sites and command line programs directly works just fine. If you search within those domains, they are indeed not indexed, but brave doesn't index them either. Besides, most of these sites have their own searches built in (except for the command line one, which has no need for it.)
DDG uses Bing for an index, and this whole "omission" of pirate sites, youtubedl, etc was an error that has been fixed. All sites come up just fine. Outlaw should really hold off before making videos when it's a one day issue and not an intentional omission
I wish I understood what you mean. So, you are refining your search? If the sites aren’t indexed, then how do they even show up in your search results?
@@lateral1385 It turns out the sites weren't blocking after all. It was apparently a bug or something that they fixed before the article was even really published. That said, for most search engines you can either search for the website, or you can search in the website for specific content. None of these search engines has the capability to search through the websites in question for specific content (which was an aspect the article complained about). This is probably due to the website structure anyway, since they are database oriented, so it's not as big of a deal as people make it out to be. tl;dr: Turns out this wasn't a big deal after all.
Folding Ideas' video "Platforms are not your friend" is an insightful take about how this keeps happening. He's specifically talking about video creators and video hosting startups, but it applies just as well to everything on the internet. Every platform betrays you eventually. Someday Brave will also fall. Also, the line about Russian propaganda infecting the youth is extra funny since it's Facebook boomers usually taking the bait.
i don't think they got to him, so much as he started swallowing the koolaid. it's clear that right around the start of the whole ukraine thing, he started to become more involved, and in the "we need a "safe" environment, where we can trust "authoritative" sources" way.
@@duckmeat4674 I am not very concerned if the kremlin knows I am looking for Kaguya sama season 3 but I'd definitely be concerned if the glowing alphabet boys know about how much I hate the antichrist.
The main problem is citizen apathy. The vast majority of citizens, esp. the youth, are not well-informed on all the major issues of today AND are not devoting their time & energy to the political process, esp the campaigns, to make sure that only the most Loving/most Wise become our public servants.
The main problem is citizen apathy. The vast majority of citizens, esp. the youth, are not well-informed, free of misinformation and disinformation, on all the major issues of today AND are not devoting their time, energy, resources, and talents to the political process, esp the campaigns, to make sure that only the most Loving/most Wise become our public servants.
Voting has never been tried in the USA in at least the past 50 years. When was the last time that a modest 80% of the total electorate (those eligible to vote) were actively involved in the political process?
@@rockjockchick We have to support candidates that are the least manipulatable. Attend one of my free weekly events: "Creating a Wonderful World. (let's get it done already)".
Is there anything that isnt controlled oppositon these days? That is the question im asking rn. Let me explain myself, once any person/company reaches a certain level of influence or repercussion, dont you think the ""men in black/suits/ties/whales/etc""aka the Big fishes wont make anything beyond the laws they themselves make in order to prevent/stop any rebellion, nah i think that in order to make the necessary redistribution of power/wealth, the necessity of making something aganist the Monopoly of new and high end tecc is blatant. Not only that, im starting in IT and the more i learn the less i know fr.
Another thing Google's pretty good at is finding research/ scientific papers. Try any niche topic, like "researcher degrees of freedom", Google's going to give you some nice results. That, maybe, is because it was designed with academic research in mind (citation analysis - see Brin & Page, 1998 - "The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine").
True but everything else is just curated news articles. I want to find forums about topics that aren't just reddit and they're never in the top 5-10 pages.
A lot of people did (me included) but the thing is we don't know the intentions of the people making decisions at these platforms. The best thing to do is research who makes the thing you use. For example Brave, Startpage, Qwant ect. (who are they, do they have a bias, what do they say on social media, what changes do they do).
You don't want any of the Russian side censored and neither do I, but do you think Yandex is going to offer unbiased search results? They'd probably censor western media and you just have the same problem.
John Oliver did a great piece last week involving Data Brokers and actually went as far as legitimately obtaining data on politicians in D.C. to see if they'll fast track legislation to prevent him from sharing said data... Can't wait to see how it will unfold.
Would you actually say setting up your own SearX server is "private", I would say its more secure. I find it a hard pill to swallow that sending your search queries out to *every* provider & not aggregating your traffic with other users would count as privacy. What is the difference between your home ip, & the ip of a random VPS that only you are using for web searches?
They have ads on their website... that's how they earn money. It's really not rocket science. (Their ads don't track you, obviously. They're served based on the search query.)
It's heartbreaking when I have to agree with a libertarian on something. It's a shame that their solution to everything is to give over *more* control to the bourgeoisie instead of violently destroying them.
Thank you for making a video covering this as i would have never known something was up with duckduckgo otherwise. Talking about the issue as well as providing alternatives to me, your videos are always top quality. This is the first time i'v heard of a search aggregator thanks for the suggestion.
I just started using SearX (or in my case a fork, SearXNG) and is really good. Setting a private instance is pretty easy if you have worked with Docker before. But I'm curious if it would be better to use a public instance that you trust. Like, if many people use the same instance - provided that the instance owner doesn't sell you off - it would be really difficult to associate a specific query with a user. A single-user private instance doesn't have this benefit. Opinions?
There is a SearX site that always uses a different SearX or SearXNG instance every time you use it! Maybe that's a good solution, so you don't gotta trust a singular public instance?
@@ErikUden meta meta search engine? And technically brave, duckduckgo and startpage use different sources of searches too, so meta meta meta search engine.
just about the right time to switch to another search engine. im getting sick of those stupid, AI-generated websites that DDG seems to promote a lot (these bots generate an entire website just based on the Google's People Also Ask, idk if i explained myself well), but i let them pass because of DDG good reputation. I'm glad you suggested some alternatives. Very informative.
I know what you mean about the AI website lately I find many, all incomprehensible, with sentences or paragraphs repeated to exhaustion. I think the majority are Chinese.
aye... it is ridiculous. You would think the folks over at DDG would recognize this stuff and at least downgrade them from "top" positions... (oops did I just suggest what the OP recommended against! LOL)
@@jackburton5085 Probably somewhat a late reply, but asides from maybe being generated with an artificial model, it is because certain keywords or phrases boost the SEO of a website, and due to how google ranks webpages, the websites that tick the most checkboxes get displayed at the top, while those that might yield better results but do not comply with these measures, end up relegated to the bottom of web searches
I think the issue with being Anti censorship is that you have to deal with the chaos that the misinformation allows to take root. Ive yet to see someone propose a solid way to be anti censorship yet prevent the spread of false or damaging information? I think well make more progress establishing data privacy and non tracking vs trying to worry about censorship.
I always enjoyed DDG for being the more privacy-centric western engine. I guess they've still got some respect from me for their privacy ideals, but they just lost quite a bit for this intentional filtering.
When it was just censoring russian propaganda, I could've given them the benefit of the doubt that they were actually might've had the user's best interest in mind but now I'm convinced that someone higher up, like maybe some government, is enforcing these changes Edit: Another commented motioned that another search engine that ddg was taking results from (i.e. Bing) might've made these changes, affecting ddg results as well.
Mental Outlaw stated on his Odyssey when this was brought up in the comments: "The bigger issue is torrent sites being removed imo, I did some testing its alot harder to find them using regular search terms"
How is Russian propaganda any different from any propaganda? Any person with braincells rightly assumes that there's no true opinion from regular news. They banned one propaganda because it's "bad" and not banning other propaganda because it's "good". Great move lmao
The annoying part is, I know the big and default setting like Google will be the most comfortable and useful most of the time but I want option and DuckDuckGo used to be that but then it grow big enough and it changes into something that is just like any other, no longer unique nor useful so I have to find a new option sigh and who knows when that will change again
i personally use the brave search engine and have been using it since the first bit of duckduckgo controversy hit with the russian censorship and so far i have had no issues with it and i can find anything i really want
Brave search won't collect or sell your data, pinkie promise. Every company is profit driven. Even if your motives are help other people, your activity has to be profitable or all you'll achieve is bankrupting yourself. That's the power of capitalism.
This was just an error with Bing's index, which DDG uses. Bit inflammatory to make a video about this like it was intentional. Also before you call me a glowie DDG shill, I don't use DDG and I don't really care about their success/morality/stance. I just do not like seeing poorly thought out videos from a channel that I otherwise really enjoy and have learned good shit from.
That shirt you're wearing is very on-topic. "Thanos was right" I'm not sure if that was a coincidence or not, but either way, I'm enjoying it! Once I saw a roadside billboard ad for DuckDuckGo a long while ago; I knew things were headed downhill. Great video!
write "January 6" in brave search and you will see that after 3-4 pages the results will be repeated, and on 10 they generally end. Let's get this other search engine dead
I'd love to hear about not having access to Russian propoganga on a privately owned search engine counts as not having free speech, were you arrested duck duck go'ing Russia? No? Then I guess your free speech is intact.
Hey man, I have been a subscriber for several years, I like your new style of videos. What ever style you are testing it works pretty good. Keep it up, you are one rare of a kind creator. Sometimes I even feel so similaör to my own houghts, you are forwarding good knowledge and ideas. I'm on one second of this video, paused, gonna drink this beer and watch it now! Thank you for creating all the content over the months. Within two weeks when the monopoly rolls another turn I will send u some XMR, not gonna be much but it's well ment as grandma used to say! :) Even thouhh I don't know you,IRL or rather closely personally, and I just take part in mostly one way communication, you are a friend to me. Best regards. LCA1319 From Sweden.
It looks like duckduckgo responded and they said that they will not censor piracy sites and youtube-dl. Based on their oficial statement on twitter, they said that this issue came from bing that they are using to source their searches. I don't know if it's true or they are just backpedaling, but it's good that they are not going to censor torrents.
I love you corporation. Thanks for keeping me safe from information and free stuff. (Fuck copyright, you cant have ownership over a concept or the ability to replicate something.)
What makes most search engines a PITA for me is that they nearly always assume I meant to search for something else, so they replace my search string with something that gets more hits. So every freaking time I need to remember to use quotes, or do extra clicking around. The whole point of a search is to narrow down vast amounts of info to precisely what I need! Replacing my search with another that gets more hits does not help me. Yes - I can spell! Yes - I know what I am looking for! FFS... More results does not equal better results. If there are only three hits for my search string, those are the three that I need!
Okay i need to ask. Was DDG always the free-speech search engine or was it the privacy-respecting search engine? Because this entire time I've only been using it so that my data doesn't get logged and sold. Its search results are already heavily based off of Bing, so I don't feel it was ever a good free-speech platform and I never used it as such. I just want my engine to give me accurate results to the normie stuff I search all the time and not harvest my data. For the spooky things, imma not search them at all (wink wink). SearX will be the only free-speech respecting engine out there, i believe, ever. Can't trust a single company with free speech
So, they were privacy-first, but until very recently the free speech was the second biggest selling point and appeared heavily in their promos. So it's not like it wasn't a thing they promised. And tbh, noone actually trully believed them on privacy. It's pretty impossible to get private this days, even if you actually try, no matter if you are provider or user. The chances of their servers not having govt black box were close to zero, if not with their knowledge, then without it. But people who want privacy use their own private web crawlers.
@@Ussurin Thanks for the reply! Did a little bit of digging and the CEO is is on Twitter saying several headlines were misrepresenting him and his statements. Also, the normie youtube-dl and normie pirate sites that I know of still appear in the DDG results. Idk about this situation, but hey at least now I know the limits of a tool I use.
There second biggest selling point was free speech and they just went back on it like it was a joke when there adds centered around it they will probably do the same thing to privacy just say “were proud to announce were selling your information and all money made will go to the Ukrainian government + all your data thanks for using us.
@@Ussurin To clear your doubts, yes, they do track you from the very beginning. How do I know? Well, a couple of times their search results did not load until some domain containing experiment or experience or improve in the name, I forgot which one, needed to load before the search results. For some reason this external domain was offline and I could not search for a couple of minutes. Privacy in itself is against the law in almost every country. Just imagine if some killer decided to use DDG, in this case, the search engine aided in making of the crime and it needs to tell the police in what way this certain user used their product.
He should have also mentioned that Yandex's jewish CEO and HR director has abandoned her post and has fled to Israel, along with many other jews and liberals that were popular in the """liberal""" side of Russian internet. So chances are if jews really don't like it then that's the thing that you should use, and that they're the good guys
It's nice to put a face to the voice! I love your videos. Thank you for making me learn so much about interesting topics like internet privacy, tech etc
This makes me so sad. DDG was such a great search engine. It was so easy to recommend it to everyone. They don't track you ✅ They have a fun duck mascot ✅ Their ui is much cleaner than Google's has been for a while ✅ They didn't censor search results ✅ Etc etc ;_;
they've always been shady. What with their mobile app being a search + browser bundle? Like, I want a search engine not a search engine _and_ a browser.
We need a paid search engine. Google makes tiny amounts of cents off of harvesting your data. Imagine how far 50 bucks could go in paying a company to serve you search results without the telemetry. Double bonus, without having to invest all that money in ad schemes they can actually make the search engine fucking better
Boy, DuckDuckGo really pulled an Uno reverse on their own existence didn't they
This is what happens when you leave one single leftist in a tech company. It gets corrupted.
Anything for a quick buck ig
@@BrokeBillionare What's up with github?
@@Emerald_Forge banned Russian accounts.
P.S. only of the people who work or used to work in the sanctioned Russian companies. The former employees can appeal the ban.
@@Emerald_Forge for a quick duck
This Drake deep fake is pretty convincing
This is actually pretty funny
It's like if Jayson Tatum and Drake had a baby
With Giga Chad patch
I thought that’s what he actually looked like. I was about to freak out then I saw this. thank you
Lmfao , agreed and well said. This is clearly modified mastered ultra instinct Update Drake.
"we made a search engine that doesn't censor shit..."
became
"We're censoring shit..."
really quick...
When you become that big, you don't have a choice.
@@sasino I'd just pretend I'm not "that big" then.
what's gonna happen?
Their moto was not no censorship, it was privacy.
Your right...because if you don't the the department of homeland security will come knocking at your door to "politely" tell you that you better well censor whatever it is you are talking about or "allowing to run amuck" or else they'll "have to take action." They bullied microsoft regarding minecraft with that and they had to put in a chat report system, and then they bullied the VRC shareholders devs and COMPANY into forcing them to implement EAC as well. All this within a month to a few weeks of each other. It's absolutely ridiculous and has made me seek out new ways to get around such a f0cking waste of tax dollars as well as trying to figure out a way to sack these nosey sacks of shit for interferring and taking away "rights" in the name of defending against "domesticated terrorism in our backyard."
Oh they let microsoft track you since they had a deal. So if you wanna pretend that's not what they were defending, you should know they failed with the excuse too. Lol
I love how corporations always know what's best for us, what information is true or false, what is propaganda and what isn't. Life is good when you don't have to think for yourself and others do the thinking and the forming of opinions for you. I'm sure this can't be abused.
Sarcasm*
Ahh yes capitalism becomig as authoritarian as comunism
It was communism all along.
Clueless
@@sampletext9426 you're posting the same comment twice already, but is it something special to americans only in that context?
The UA-cam downloader isn't even piracy. It uses the same requests that browsers make. The only difference is that the video gets streamed to a file instead of the screen.
They don't want you to know this. They want you to be ignorant. Big tech wants you to think that they are the only ones allowed to understand
Absolutely. For creators the only difference is if you hold on the video - as they can’t pull your copy down, like they can do on the main platform. Aside from that, it’s just an ad-blocker. Only if you do something else than just watch it once you are doing something the creators didn’t intend you to do.
@@catcatcatcatcatcatcatcatcatca That's the point: they don't want copies of UA-cam videos floating around on people's harddrives. They want to control all the information. They want to be able to purge videos and know that the information is gone, forever. Local copies prevents that.
It's not even that different to screen recording the entire video, people can steal content either way
but I guess Google would want to reserve the video download to premium users
They want you watching those ads
Do you guys remember the old days of the internet where "search engines" were like sites categorized by topic, then you clicked on a topic and there were sites ordered alphabetically?
good times.
granted asking a specific question woudln't gave your "desired" results.
but since we're bound to read the whole paper to understand the topics, it made us understood things better.
Only remember that on the deep web
@@Uberkist then you're not old enough.
The biggest(and most probable that you know by name) was yahoo. There were many categories with subcategories that would list many sites.(as google didnt exist)
@@99temporal yahoo was great in the early 2000s
that was called a site index
They obviously doesn't understand that we don't need a "daddy", we just need a search engine who act decentralized and can't be censored...
this generation destroyed the hell out of everything i liked from amusment parks to the internet like locusts destroy move on destroy rinse and repeat.
if decentralized is what you want, then... well, DDG wasn't for you to begin with.
@@atticusherodes6648 don't put the blame on us, we are as angry as you regarding the loss of freedom and censorship rising
@@ShiroIsMyName fr I’m gen z too and I see mostly millenials and genXers shaping all the sociopolitical landscape. That, and also grooming other less fortunate genZers to be the androgynous, mentally ill, mentally challenged consoomers they want us all to be, for some reason.
Excellent reply my friend. We might be one generation apart but we all know how it feels being blamed for something you completely disagree with.
Censorship does not protect people, education does. Making an activity a crime won't stop people, it will make them criminals.
Did you really say "education" or did you actually mean indoctrination?
Schools nowadays aren't actually "educating" anymore, they're indoctrinating them.
@@godstenrules yeah that's their point. that censoring what books kids can read is not the right way to protect kids, actually teaching them critical thinking skills is, so that when they come across some bad information, they can recognize it and not get sucked in. education > censorship
School i went to has a banned books section, annd a banned books day lol its a very different school lol. Still not the best school at all, its american so trash education and learning system, but better then most in this disgrace of a country, more of a corporate union protecting corporations right to absolute authority
That reminds me of "If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy." - Phil Zimmermann (Creator of PrettyGoodPrivacy/PGP)
@@saramaeks9826 school would rather teach the kids the opposite ideology than to think for themselves. A critical thinker is more scary to them than a "wrong thinker". It's because you can always scream at the wrong thinker to stroke your ego than to debate a critical thinker and realise he's not buying it but he can.
I swear every time there’s an app or a search engine etc that’s actually good someone or something comes along and decides to destroy everything that made it good to begin with.
I think its because if they stick to principles, they can't grow. Either conform or stay at the kid's table that's the choice they face.
It’s elites see that their lies can’t stand in a free thinking society.
✨ ENSHITIFICATION ✨
You cannot trust companies. We need a search engine that is decentralized and doesn't suck to use.
presearch.
we might aswell just be making our own search engines
Cerx
YaCy is a Peer-to-Peer crawler and search engine. I've never tried it, and I have no idea if it's any good.
@endofsummer searx just takes results from other search engines, it's useless for getting unbiased result rankings.
You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
Sounds like I shouldn't start my career as a hero ;)
HMOD HABIBI HMOD HABIBI
@@porky1118 how's picky doing
Best interpretation
Donald J Trump
I knew that moment will come someday and here we are. Next: DuckDuckGo stores and collects personal information about you even more than Google does.
It's based on Israel, so that checks out.
@@elcidleon6500DuckDuckGo is American, and is headquartered in Paoli, PA
Duckduckgo is such a letdown.
YEA :,( I TRUSTED THEM
@@grandstarstudiosFORMER-YT this is currently a supply chain issue, it's being worked against.
Duckduckbye
@@Chatbot121 its actually duckduckgone wasn’t that trending on twitter for a bit lol
"""Gabriel Weinberg"""
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I guess we have to DuckDuckGo to a different search engine.
I can't tell if I have seen you before or you have the same profile
@@Popcorn_Pillow its a popular image from a youtube video called juul cat, if you go to that video you can see hundreds of people with this same image.
nice
@@UnixOath Also *Presearch and Startpage...*
@@UnixOath far more than Google and Duckduckgo
Ah, Brave. Their VPN collects data just like other services, except it turned out they send this information to governments if they think you're doing something wrong, instead of companies. Way to go
never thought drake would explain me about search engines
he really does look like a target brand version of drake
i dont see it at all lol
Can't unsee now
good morning sir
You used to call me on my *decentralized untrackable cellphone*
Man, duckduckgo used to be my main search. I felt betrayed like I was using google all over again. It's like they were looking up to google itself.
actualy you sor tof were they dont have their own index they searched everyone elses censored indexes.
I am using Ecosia now.
What do you use now?
@@ericquiabazza2608 how is that for privacy and being unbiased?
@@Jeff2thesky a searx instance like northboot
I give it a few years before Brave ends up falling in the same pithole, all these 'privacy first' companies always start with that goal but once the recognition and money starts coming in things change fast. Such a sad faith for Duckduckgo, so much respect destroy so fast.
They became the very thing they sworn to destroy
Turns out everyone wants to eat
Turns out the money comes from the same sources.. so no real diversity.
@@NomadAlly eat my info, corporation
I've never followed the duckduck origin story, but I always thought it's about privacy, not defending freedom of speech or piracy. And filtering your search results doesn't mean they're fucking with your privacy, all it takes is blacklisting certain websites from their index. Privacy left intact. It's a shitty thing to do and they will suffer for it, but they never sworn to destroy the Big Tech.
@@mac1991seth Privacy without freedom aint privacy. They are one in the same
I really wish people would stop trying to censor propaganda and start teaching people how to recognize the traits/tools that propaganda uses to manipulate people, like logical fallacies and such...
tall order to fill. that cuts both ways, you see. corpos and governments have zero interest in this. schools also aren't a place to learn anything besides be an obedient little slave. especially in america. at their core, they remain the industrial-era prison work camps rich factory owners wanted them to be. only individuals/entities without the objective of gaining/retaining money and control would seek to educate the populace against brainwashing and propaganda.
好GORBEN
We can't do that! If they can spot propaganda that mean's they'll spot OUR propaganda! /s
There's a reason USA schools don't teach kids to critically evaluate media. It'd be counter-productive.
@@DudeTheMighty HERE IS HE
REAL NOT HARM THE
Soon as I saw who the creator/CEO was, I avoided them like the plague
Early Life : JEWISH
It always starts with the least controversial things - fighting misinformation, saving the children, stopping racism, etc. (I say least controversial because anyone who can see the writing on the wall and speaks up about it is quickly assumed to be a supporter of terrible things and immediately shot down). The problem is that once there's a precedent for the use of power, it's almost always expanded upon until it becomes normalized. So, it will just keep happening again and again.
They're not doing this because they want to, actually, DuckDuckGo devs are actively working on restoring torrenting site search results as well as the UA-cam-dl site. DuckDuckGo simply uses Bing as an indexer, which means that because Bing just started censoring torrents and UA-cam-dl, they disappeared from DuckDuckGo too.
Mental Outlaw is right to criticize this happening, but he's wrong to claim there are any ulterior motives on the side of DuckDuckGo here.
gosh darnit, every times someone claims it's for "protecting the children" it's ALWAYS the old switcheroo where they are trying to pass some spooky shite
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."
H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 - 1956)
When I hear “fight with terrorism” my lamp is already red as fuck. Also money laundering
This is true. Lots of people want censorship for "a good cause", but they don't understand why it doesn't actually work that way.
Given that DuckDuckGo mostly pulls search results from Bing anyway, I’d say there’s a really strong chance that DDG didn’t go anything in this instance, and that instead it was Microsoft who censored the search results and de-indexed the sites, rather than DDG.
man screw Bing, I started a new tech website 2 months ago and recently wrote an article about the Instagram alternative Russia is working on. I took extra care not to sound positive towards any side but 2 days after that Bing just hammered my website.
since I'm new and Google is much more competitive I lost the source of 99% of my traffic.
@@aymanabdullah7608 fuck big tech, all my homies hate big tech
The owner specified the company's intent. I don't think he is lying.
@@aymanabdullah7608 It's always like that since cold war
bombing Donbass by kiyv is good
bombing kosovo by Serbia is bad
us want you to be on one side,not thinking logically not going deeply into details
With respect, that's irrelevant. This may or may not be DDG's fault and if you wanna rag on Gabriel Weinberg vs. Microsoft, maybe this is your excuse to do so, but in the end it doesn't matter. If you expected DDG to be a safe, unfiltered search engine, it's not. It doesn't make the search engine useless, it just makes it somewhat less useful.
War will once end. Censorship caused by best of intentions will not. That's the dark reality.
I always had this gut feeling that DDG was just trying to take Google's place and Brave Google Chrome's because of what it implies (e.g. power, control, etc). The heavy marketing campaigns, the slimy tactics they resorted to, the virtue signaling, the enforcement of their ideologies with total disregard for their user base... It all tells the tale of corporate entities hellbent on getting their share of the pie.
Haven't seen any ideologies enforced from Brave yet. Have you?
@@deoxal7947 um yes i have. the lion is a symbol for bravery. brave. Theyre saying being brave is good
@@vivaene never expected this from Brave. They are all shills at the end of the day I guess.
@@vivaene He’s right.
@@vivaene I wouldn't call bravery an ideology. I would call it a virtue. Virtues are simple to express, ideologies are more complex, and worldviews are the most encompassing and difficult to explain. Ideologies are where there is some danger. They are broad enough to get people to adhere to it but narrow enough to explain easily. Virtues being nearly universal, makes it hard to go to war over the virtue itself.
Is there any society on earth that values cowardice instead? You certainly couldn't have a war between one country valuing bravery and the other cowardice. The country valuing cowardice wouldn't get a single kill. The country valuing bravery would commit genocide unless they were tempered by the virtues of kindness and mercy.
"Instead of censorship, they should teach how to stop propaganda". Of course the politicians that make the laws that regulate education would never educate the population about the manipulation tricks they also use.
Time to actively not recommend DuckDuckGo to others.
At best recommending brave right now but this shit just makes me have no leg behind on everything
@@victorhugo-wo2ci It's about sending a message. If the Brave devs have even a two-digit IQ they should be able to see what will happen if they follow the same route. And let's face it search engines like DDG weren't being used by normies, so now that they screwed the alt-techies Brave and other engines will pick up the refugees and ought to be able to figure out we'll jump ship as soon as we smell the same BS.
This whole video was about an indexing bug with Bing and all the sites can be found on DDG right now
@@capSAR Doesn't matter. DDG censored because of Ukraine. They're now actively and intentionally censoring "misinformation". That alone is enough reason to not use them, regardless of this specific video.
How to make a good competition:
-never be political
-threat your workers better
-don't monopolize the stuff you made
Yes threaten your workers like professionals
Is "threat" a spelling mistake or an intentional joke?
I read it as treat, but when I double-checked it, it was 'threat' lol
every one of those is literally being political you doofus
Love this typo
DDG went from being a recommended privacy focused search engine to being literally worse than Google in about a month, thats impressive.
No way it’s “literally worse” than Google. Like this is disappointing as shit but nowhere near as bad as google
@@J43rv1 its worse, everyone and their dog understands google spies and censors. But when you promote yourself as an anti Google, pro privacy, apolitical search engine, then do this, its worse.
I wouldn't say as bad as Google but yeah it's bad. I use Brave search now and it's objectively a garbage search engine, when I can't find something I go from Brave to DDG to Google.
The only thing Brave seems somewhat okay at is finding documentation for programming languages but that's one of the most simple things for a search engine probably.
@@J43rv1 true, people tend to exxaggerate in emotions
How does DDG doing a couple of the million bad things google does make them "literally worse than google".
The big brain time in this is:
Some people like me didn´t know about youtube DL, and because the GENIUS duckduck GO sensored it, now i know what it is, and i am going to tell all my friends about that beautiful thing.
Go for the forks, UA-cam-Dl itself is deprecated abandonware, but the forks are going strong
@user yup, that one doesn't have a throttled download rate and actually allows downloading videos in a few minutes, rather than having to wait several hours.
Thank you brothers
@@LinkEX there's also GUIs that are based on yt dlp like Yt dlg. I don't have the link to it
Ah yes, the beauty of the Streisand Effect. What's sad is that those in positions of power still have not seemed to figured out why censorship never works. They want to lecture us on morality and they look down on us as idiots but they have not yet been able to understand the basic psychology of the human mind.
As someone just learning about all this stuff, and a graphic designer, I knew as soon as you mentioned yandex, you were going to say reverse image search. It is remarkably better than any other on the net, and returns 5 times as many results that are 5 times as accurate. I use it everyday at work when I’m trying to find higher quality images, obscure logos and photos, and finding fonts I cannot find with other tools.
You are so right, when you allow governments or companies to do something because of a crisis, they never stop doing it even if the crisis ends. Here gov. started collecting additional earthquake taxes after a devastating earthquake and they've been collecting it since 2000.
The same thing happened when a nearby town instated a “wheel tax” to save the local hospital. The hospital closed anyways and the tax still remains.
@@geekzombie8795 What the fuck are you talking about?
What the fuck lol
give an inch and they'll take a mile
Lolol smh
Once brave gets big enough it will get corrupt too. That's just how things work
wait wtf, change of plans boys there's duck for dinner tonight
@@ChromeDestiny oh fuck
i stopped using duckduckgo as soon as they started censoring what they considered "russian propaganda", i knew at that point they would censor whatever they disagreed with
we certainly know how much Dems love pulling the "Russian bot" card
I just uninstalled it. I was really hoping that the “Russian propaganda” would be the last thing. I was wrong.
@@arandomcommenter412 you had it installed?
@@arandomcommenter412 No freedom for the enemies of freedom!! Lmao
I never would have thought DuckDuckGo would have got involved in censorship, I'm shocked.
Litterally a perfect example of the road to hell being paved with good intentions
"good intentions"
sweet summer child
@@Bloom_HD thank you
@@Bloom_HD Yeah now that i think about it is a perfect excuse
28 days out of the womb, mothers can kill their babies soon. 🙀
@@Bloom_HD have I seen you on a forsen video
"If you stare into the Google for too long, the Google stares back at you"
- Frederick Nietzsche
Fried Rice NEETzsche
I have recently noticed that DuckDuckGo's search results are exactly same as Bing's (if not exact, then very very close, even the ordering). This is very sussy.
I have been testing this on DDG for a few days now since I saw this article, and searching for file sharing sites and command line programs directly works just fine. If you search within those domains, they are indeed not indexed, but brave doesn't index them either. Besides, most of these sites have their own searches built in (except for the command line one, which has no need for it.)
DDG uses Bing for an index, and this whole "omission" of pirate sites, youtubedl, etc was an error that has been fixed. All sites come up just fine. Outlaw should really hold off before making videos when it's a one day issue and not an intentional omission
Yeah, I couldn't find sankaku complex for my cultured enlightening sessions there, what a shame...
I wish I understood what you mean. So, you are refining your search? If the sites aren’t indexed, then how do they even show up in your search results?
@@lateral1385 It turns out the sites weren't blocking after all. It was apparently a bug or something that they fixed before the article was even really published. That said, for most search engines you can either search for the website, or you can search in the website for specific content. None of these search engines has the capability to search through the websites in question for specific content (which was an aspect the article complained about). This is probably due to the website structure anyway, since they are database oriented, so it's not as big of a deal as people make it out to be.
tl;dr: Turns out this wasn't a big deal after all.
@@SylvesterInk Thanks for the informative response! I think you’re pretty cool
"My Disappointment Is Immeasurable, And My Day Is Ruined"
Folding Ideas' video "Platforms are not your friend" is an insightful take about how this keeps happening. He's specifically talking about video creators and video hosting startups, but it applies just as well to everything on the internet. Every platform betrays you eventually. Someday Brave will also fall.
Also, the line about Russian propaganda infecting the youth is extra funny since it's Facebook boomers usually taking the bait.
Maybe the spooks got to him. Next question is whether the “your country needs you” line worked on him or whether there’s dirt on this guy.
Well, his name is Wineberg.
@@rightwingsafetysquad9872 Didn't expect a pattern.
@@rightwingsafetysquad9872 So he was just waiting for the right time and right excuse
i don't think they got to him, so much as he started swallowing the koolaid. it's clear that right around the start of the whole ukraine thing, he started to become more involved, and in the "we need a "safe" environment, where we can trust "authoritative" sources" way.
@@rightwingsafetysquad9872 when I say every time I mean literally. Every. Time.
The most ironic thing is this just made Yandex a whole lot more tempting to use. Good job censoring Russian propaganda DuckDuckGo!
Yandex is just Russian Google.
Going from one botnet to the other is never the answer
Yandex always has a fuckton more results for what I need to find than Google ever does
@@duckmeat4674 I am not very concerned if the kremlin knows I am looking for Kaguya sama season 3 but I'd definitely be concerned if the glowing alphabet boys know about how much I hate the antichrist.
@@TheRedneckPreppy my comment was how it's better for piracy
The main problem is citizen apathy. The vast majority of citizens, esp. the youth, are not well-informed on all the major issues of today AND are not devoting their time & energy to the political process, esp the campaigns, to make sure that only the most Loving/most Wise become our public servants.
The main problem is citizen apathy. The vast majority of citizens, esp. the youth, are not well-informed, free of misinformation and disinformation, on all the major issues of today AND are not devoting their time, energy, resources, and talents to the political process, esp the campaigns, to make sure that only the most Loving/most Wise become our public servants.
Voting has never been tried in the USA in at least the past 50 years. When was the last time that a modest 80% of the total electorate (those eligible to vote) were actively involved in the political process?
Search for my group: "The Most Effective Way to Create a Wonderful World".
Even when there are good ppl on the ballots they get manipulated out if the race most of the time. Vote for local gov. It has the most influence.
@@rockjockchick We have to support candidates that are the least manipulatable. Attend one of my free weekly events: "Creating a Wonderful World. (let's get it done already)".
DDG be taking Firefox as their role model.
Firefox be promoting alopecia users on their UA-cam channel instead of improving the browser lmao
what's wrong with firefox
@@ausore9832 bad defaults and incompetence.
@@wanderingthewastes6159 That's it ?
wow talk about being a snowflake
@@wanderingthewastes6159 That's the woke (Marxist) Chinese media/"Socialists" (propaganda) for ya
"You were meant to destroy the Big Tech, not join them!"
Thing is, now you start to wonder if they're not sensoring more stuff without announcing it
It's also interesting to consider what all these companies are censoring that they aren't telling you.
Duckduckgo did always just seem like controlled opposition all this time
Is there anything that isnt controlled oppositon these days?
That is the question im asking rn.
Let me explain myself, once any person/company reaches a certain level of influence or repercussion, dont you think the ""men in black/suits/ties/whales/etc""aka the Big fishes wont make anything beyond the laws they themselves make in order to prevent/stop any rebellion, nah i think that in order to make the necessary redistribution of power/wealth, the necessity of making something aganist the Monopoly of new and high end tecc is blatant.
Not only that, im starting in IT and the more i learn the less i know fr.
I just want a search engine that doesnt show me biased news articles when i try searching for the news
Another thing Google's pretty good at is finding research/ scientific papers. Try any niche topic, like "researcher degrees of freedom", Google's going to give you some nice results. That, maybe, is because it was designed with academic research in mind (citation analysis - see Brin & Page, 1998 - "The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine").
thanks for sharin
@@pokbot They have a dedicated research database(Google Scholar), which probably helps a bit.
True but everything else is just curated news articles. I want to find forums about topics that aren't just reddit and they're never in the top 5-10 pages.
What alternatives are there to google scholar?
And I used to believe that DuckDuckGo was the best...
A lot of people did (me included) but the thing is we don't know the intentions of the people making decisions at these platforms. The best thing to do is research who makes the thing you use. For example Brave, Startpage, Qwant ect. (who are they, do they have a bias, what do they say on social media, what changes do they do).
@@antjoes I switched to Brave and Yandex after they did the "Russia misinformation" thing
You don't want any of the Russian side censored and neither do I, but do you think Yandex is going to offer unbiased search results? They'd probably censor western media and you just have the same problem.
@@dvnk6971 Same. Anytime someone puts their dirty hands in the cookie jar for one cookie it doesn't stop at one.
@@dvnk6971 same
John Oliver did a great piece last week involving Data Brokers and actually went as far as legitimately obtaining data on politicians in D.C. to see if they'll fast track legislation to prevent him from sharing said data... Can't wait to see how it will unfold.
Link? Sounds interesting
Would you actually say setting up your own SearX server is "private", I would say its more secure. I find it a hard pill to swallow that sending your search queries out to *every* provider & not aggregating your traffic with other users would count as privacy.
What is the difference between your home ip, & the ip of a random VPS that only you are using for web searches?
Good channel! There still needs to be a lot more clarification about the actions of these megacompanies. Instant subscription.
next censorship: *whatever sites they don't like*
Once they had ads on the radio I questioned why, and how they would earn it back.
They have ads on their website... that's how they earn money. It's really not rocket science.
(Their ads don't track you, obviously. They're served based on the search query.)
DuckDuckGo also has ads in their search results unless you use an ad blocker.
Oh I see, the radio ads increase traffic to the page ads.
@@BenLJackson it's ads all the way down
It's heartbreaking when I have to agree with a libertarian on something. It's a shame that their solution to everything is to give over *more* control to the bourgeoisie instead of violently destroying them.
At this point, it would be better for them to rebrand into:
*DuckDuckGlow*
Lol, they're glowies now.
I mean...
""Gabriel Weinberg"""
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UA-cam won't let me say swear words.
@@MrAnsatsuken(((((()))))
@@MrAnsatsuken pointless identity politics
damn, i switched to duckduckgo because the pandemic. But i didn't expect this, smh.
Thank you for making a video covering this as i would have never known something was up with duckduckgo otherwise. Talking about the issue as well as providing alternatives to me, your videos are always top quality. This is the first time i'v heard of a search aggregator thanks for the suggestion.
I just started using SearX (or in my case a fork, SearXNG) and is really good. Setting a private instance is pretty easy if you have worked with Docker before. But I'm curious if it would be better to use a public instance that you trust. Like, if many people use the same instance - provided that the instance owner doesn't sell you off - it would be really difficult to associate a specific query with a user. A single-user private instance doesn't have this benefit. Opinions?
Brave search is good too.
SearX uses tor, the searches are anonymous anyways. The difference between using public and private instance are minimal.
is xng back up? they went down for weeks as soon as i started using it
There is a SearX site that always uses a different SearX or SearXNG instance every time you use it!
Maybe that's a good solution, so you don't gotta trust a singular public instance?
@@ErikUden meta meta search engine? And technically brave, duckduckgo and startpage use different sources of searches too, so meta meta meta search engine.
Duck, Duck, Go, but is the Duck a Duck or a goose in disguise? News at eleven.
just about the right time to switch to another search engine. im getting sick of those stupid, AI-generated websites that DDG seems to promote a lot (these bots generate an entire website just based on the Google's People Also Ask, idk if i explained myself well), but i let them pass because of DDG good reputation. I'm glad you suggested some alternatives. Very informative.
It's crazy how bad the bot filtering is
I know what you mean about the AI website
lately I find many, all incomprehensible, with sentences or paragraphs repeated to exhaustion. I think the majority are Chinese.
aye... it is ridiculous. You would think the folks over at DDG would recognize this stuff and at least downgrade them from "top" positions... (oops did I just suggest what the OP recommended against! LOL)
@@jackburton5085 Probably somewhat a late reply, but asides from maybe being generated with an artificial model, it is because certain keywords or phrases boost the SEO of a website, and due to how google ranks webpages, the websites that tick the most checkboxes get displayed at the top, while those that might yield better results but do not comply with these measures, end up relegated to the bottom of web searches
It was pretty sus for me when they started shilling DuckDuckGo on billboards and on the radio
all that money must come from somewhere
I think the issue with being Anti censorship is that you have to deal with the chaos that the misinformation allows to take root.
Ive yet to see someone propose a solid way to be anti censorship yet prevent the spread of false or damaging information? I think well make more progress establishing data privacy and non tracking vs trying to worry about censorship.
I always enjoyed DDG for being the more privacy-centric western engine. I guess they've still got some respect from me for their privacy ideals, but they just lost quite a bit for this intentional filtering.
When it was just censoring russian propaganda, I could've given them the benefit of the doubt that they were actually might've had the user's best interest in mind but now I'm convinced that someone higher up, like maybe some government, is enforcing these changes
Edit: Another commented motioned that another search engine that ddg was taking results from (i.e. Bing) might've made these changes, affecting ddg results as well.
Censor and "best interest" doesn't fit the same logic...
Hiding information from your users is never a good thing, even if that information is coming from the bogeyman of the day (Russia).
Mental Outlaw stated on his Odyssey when this was brought up in the comments:
"The bigger issue is torrent sites being removed imo, I did some testing its alot harder to find them using regular search terms"
How is Russian propaganda any different from any propaganda? Any person with braincells rightly assumes that there's no true opinion from regular news. They banned one propaganda because it's "bad" and not banning other propaganda because it's "good". Great move lmao
The annoying part is, I know the big and default setting like Google will be the most comfortable and useful most of the time but I want option and DuckDuckGo used to be that but then it grow big enough and it changes into something that is just like any other, no longer unique nor useful so I have to find a new option sigh and who knows when that will change again
Duckduckgo is in the process of shitting the bed.
Uh oh stinky
i personally use the brave search engine and have been using it since the first bit of duckduckgo controversy hit with the russian censorship and so far i have had no issues with it and i can find anything i really want
Outlaw seems to live like that "men live like this and think its okay" meme. ONE OF US ONE OF US
Brave search won't collect or sell your data, pinkie promise.
Every company is profit driven. Even if your motives are help other people, your activity has to be profitable or all you'll achieve is bankrupting yourself. That's the power of capitalism.
This was just an error with Bing's index, which DDG uses. Bit inflammatory to make a video about this like it was intentional. Also before you call me a glowie DDG shill, I don't use DDG and I don't really care about their success/morality/stance. I just do not like seeing poorly thought out videos from a channel that I otherwise really enjoy and have learned good shit from.
Especially when the very article this video is referencing later made updates to acknowledge this...
DuckDuckGo is really becoming shite... Gonna move to other solutions... looking forward to the searx setup video...
Great video. First time in your channel and I appreciate your seriousness, BS free way of saying things. Thanks
That shirt you're wearing is very on-topic. "Thanos was right" I'm not sure if that was a coincidence or not, but either way, I'm enjoying it!
Once I saw a roadside billboard ad for DuckDuckGo a long while ago; I knew things were headed downhill.
Great video!
I've been hearing radio ads for them at work for quite awhile now.
write "January 6" in brave search and you will see that after 3-4 pages the results will be repeated, and on 10 they generally end. Let's get this other search engine dead
We're going to wind up going back to whitelists like the days before search engines
True crime letting one side speak while silencing the other. Nothing says free speech like censorship.
I'd love to hear about not having access to Russian propoganga on a privately owned search engine counts as not having free speech, were you arrested duck duck go'ing Russia? No? Then I guess your free speech is intact.
@@Dermetsu ah thank God they still allow Ukranian propaganda on there. It feels so good to be on the right side, just ask Weinberg.
@@Dermetsu The amounts of copium in that sentence should be illegal.
@@ChocholateStarFish that's what I thought, no argument on how your free speech is gone.
@@Dermetsu Average 80IQ the ukraine supporter
Duckduckgo did suffers *either you die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain*
Hey man, I have been a subscriber for several years, I like your new style of videos. What ever style you are testing it works pretty good. Keep it up, you are one rare of a kind creator. Sometimes I even feel so similaör to my own houghts, you are forwarding good knowledge and ideas. I'm on one second of this video, paused, gonna drink this beer and watch it now! Thank you for creating all the content over the months. Within two weeks when the monopoly rolls another turn I will send u some XMR, not gonna be much but it's well ment as grandma used to say! :) Even thouhh I don't know you,IRL or rather closely personally, and I just take part in mostly one way communication, you are a friend to me. Best regards. LCA1319 From Sweden.
It looks like duckduckgo responded and they said that they will not censor piracy sites and youtube-dl. Based on their oficial statement on twitter, they said that this issue came from bing that they are using to source their searches. I don't know if it's true or they are just backpedaling, but it's good that they are not going to censor torrents.
*"Some generic comment about being the villain"*
His last name convinces me that he ain't trust worthy.
Exactly
SHUTITDOWN
Early Life moment.
About that...
Oy vey!
Ohh 😯.... But fun fact : did you know duck duck GO doesn't block Microsoft . This small indie company can still track you on duck duck go.
I love you corporation.
Thanks for keeping me safe from information and free stuff.
(Fuck copyright, you cant have ownership over a concept or the ability to replicate something.)
What makes most search engines a PITA for me is that they nearly always assume I meant to search for something else, so they replace my search string with something that gets more hits. So every freaking time I need to remember to use quotes, or do extra clicking around. The whole point of a search is to narrow down vast amounts of info to precisely what I need! Replacing my search with another that gets more hits does not help me. Yes - I can spell! Yes - I know what I am looking for! FFS...
More results does not equal better results. If there are only three hits for my search string, those are the three that I need!
Okay i need to ask. Was DDG always the free-speech search engine or was it the privacy-respecting search engine? Because this entire time I've only been using it so that my data doesn't get logged and sold. Its search results are already heavily based off of Bing, so I don't feel it was ever a good free-speech platform and I never used it as such. I just want my engine to give me accurate results to the normie stuff I search all the time and not harvest my data. For the spooky things, imma not search them at all (wink wink).
SearX will be the only free-speech respecting engine out there, i believe, ever. Can't trust a single company with free speech
So, they were privacy-first, but until very recently the free speech was the second biggest selling point and appeared heavily in their promos. So it's not like it wasn't a thing they promised.
And tbh, noone actually trully believed them on privacy. It's pretty impossible to get private this days, even if you actually try, no matter if you are provider or user. The chances of their servers not having govt black box were close to zero, if not with their knowledge, then without it. But people who want privacy use their own private web crawlers.
@@Ussurin Thanks for the reply!
Did a little bit of digging and the CEO is is on Twitter saying several headlines were misrepresenting him and his statements.
Also, the normie youtube-dl and normie pirate sites that I know of still appear in the DDG results. Idk about this situation, but hey at least now I know the limits of a tool I use.
Swatch in bing RIGHT NOW "American culture IS centered arround" and See the result. Its way morenopen than Google.
There second biggest selling point was free speech and they just went back on it like it was a joke when there adds centered around it
they will probably do the same thing to privacy just say “were proud to announce were selling your information and all money made will go to the Ukrainian government + all your data thanks for using us.
@@Ussurin To clear your doubts, yes, they do track you from the very beginning. How do I know? Well, a couple of times their search results did not load until some domain containing experiment or experience or improve in the name, I forgot which one, needed to load before the search results. For some reason this external domain was offline and I could not search for a couple of minutes. Privacy in itself is against the law in almost every country. Just imagine if some killer decided to use DDG, in this case, the search engine aided in making of the crime and it needs to tell the police in what way this certain user used their product.
With a name like Weinberg DDG was glowing from the start.
I got a duck duck go ad upon opening the video
>surname ends with “berg”
what else should we have expected?
He should have also mentioned that Yandex's jewish CEO and HR director has abandoned her post and has fled to Israel, along with many other jews and liberals that were popular in the """liberal""" side of Russian internet. So chances are if jews really don't like it then that's the thing that you should use, and that they're the good guys
@@one_step_sideways Is this a copypasta?
@@msp1133 i wish it was
@@one_step_sideways I mean you're not far from making it a copypasta at this point. It makes as much sense as a copypasta at least.
Gabriel might have gotten an offer from Uncle Fink. It's just a rumor, but every rumor has a grain of truth in it.
I mean, many were giving warnings this would happen. I wonder how they knew... *Shrugs shoulders*
I'm just gonna write it: I always imagined you as being a slim, geeky type guy, I'm pretty surprised.
It's a deepfake
@@haah9948 It's not
@@kendarr sheeth
I mean, it's weird how he suddenly shows his face and with this channel's topic, it could be deepfake, I wasn't really looking closely
@@izimsi He has shown he's face before.
It's nice to put a face to the voice! I love your videos. Thank you for making me learn so much about interesting topics like internet privacy, tech etc
This makes me so sad. DDG was such a great search engine. It was so easy to recommend it to everyone.
They don't track you ✅
They have a fun duck mascot ✅
Their ui is much cleaner than Google's has been for a while ✅
They didn't censor search results ✅
Etc etc ;_;
Look like da Duck smoke weed this time
@@mechamicro more like crack cocaine
@@mechamicro The ui sucks dude google's ui is so much better in my opinion
@@arjun6003 Nah, having to click on the page number and all the nasty ads no thanks. DDGO is much cleaner and endless scroll.
they've always been shady. What with their mobile app being a search + browser bundle? Like, I want a search engine not a search engine _and_ a browser.
We need a paid search engine. Google makes tiny amounts of cents off of harvesting your data. Imagine how far 50 bucks could go in paying a company to serve you search results without the telemetry. Double bonus, without having to invest all that money in ad schemes they can actually make the search engine fucking better
The CEO's name is Weinberg, we should've expected it earlier bros
[Early Life]:
@@idrathernot_2 Oy gevalt
Weinerberg