DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its Search Results
Question: does anyone actually know what DDG does with user data? Like they market themselves as a &quot;privacy respecting&quot; search engine, but how much of this is truth?<p>I&#x27;d imagine there&#x27;s good money in convincing people they have privacy because then they&#x27;ll provide more interesting data.<p>Has the company ever been audited? Why should they be trusted to not compromise user privacy? Imo at least Google is honest: you know when you use their products as intended you have no privacy, and they don&#x27;t try to hide this<p>Edit: since DDG isn&#x27;t open source like searx, how do we know there is ANY truth to their marketing claims?<p>Edit: Just for accuracy, the browser extensions are open source. But as far as I know, the actual search engine isn&#x27;t<p>Edit: They made over 100 million in 2020. They clearly can (and should) get an independent audit. It&#x27;s shocking that they haven&#x27;t had a single audit. Even startpage has