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Do you think DuckDuckGo is a good choice for people who are concerned about their privacy? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by Kagathara@lemmy.ca to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] lemann@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

Misinformation being downranked seems to be a major plus to me. 🤷‍♀️

+1 Yes!

I don't understand why people want to see misinformation in their search honestly. There's a lot of this "oh no its 'censoring' my results so its bad" thinking in some parts of the privacy community and its not healthy IMO.

I do that agree that there is a time and a place for censorship though, in some instances it can potentially overstretch what most consider to be fair, but with most things you can't please everyone. Personally as long as I get 🚢🏴‍☠️🧲 in my search results I'm happy.

If all search was uncensored, and people were a button click away from seeing NSFL (note: not NSFW) stuff all the time, the internet would be a very different place... and various countries would have likely forgone it in favor of their own national intranet (such as NK or PRC kinda have)