That these tactics are the same as those used by Google and other Big Tech masters is not a matter of debate. After all, Weinberg did not say this is something DuckDuckGo “will do,” he said DuckDuckGo it is something DuckDuckGo will “continue to do.” Not only is this an admission that DuckDuckGo censors search results and makes no bones about it, but it also implies that this has been going on for some time, despite Weinberg’s earlier tweet indicating that this is a new practice. The whole point of the search engine is to show more relevant content over less relevant content, and that is what we continue to do.- Gabriel Weinberg March 10, 2022 The whole point of DuckDuckGo is privacy. The whole point of the search engine is to show more relevant content over less relevant content, and that is what we continue to do. ![]() One user tweeted, “DuckDuckGo had a nice run.” Another pointed out that Weinberg’s tweet about openly censoring information is a departure from what DuckDuckGO has claimed to be, tweeting, “The whole point of DuckDuckGo is for you to NOT do that.”Īnd that is when Weinberg went all in, plainly admitting that censorship of information is perfectly in keeping with what DuckDuckGo does: If we wanted biased, curated searches we’d use Google.” Many of us use DDG to look at stories from different angles without any bias or at least we thought we did. The first tweeted reply to that post read, “Make that one less user, just switched to Brave Search. (We don't have an exact count since we don't track people.)- Gabriel Weinberg March 10, 2022 Privacy is a human right and transcends politics, which is why about 100 million people around the world use DuckDuckGo. ![]() ![]() DuckDuckGo's mission is to make simple privacy protection accessible to all.
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