Congratulations, but this milestone makes it even MORE important for DuckDuckGo to get additional attention regarding its location problem.
You are based in the US, use Amazon servers, and are big partners with Yahoo. Yahoo was found to be cooperating with the government,making it possible for federal agents to spy on customers even if they were not suspected of doing anything wrong.
If the US government were to approach you and/or Yahoo and Amazon with a National Security Letter and gag order, how long do you think it would take for DuckDuckGo to become a honeypot? A MASSIVE honeypot.
Your search engine is nice and delivers ok search results from Yahoo/Bing. You have some nice extra features. You also make nice privacy promises. But what good are those promises if the FBI demands that you cooperate with them, Amazon and Yahoo by allowing agents to quietly change things up in the background?
I believe that privacytools was right to take you out of a recommended spot and put in Searx etc. instead. Maybe if the US government sees the damage it's doing to companies like yours, things will change. But until that happens, a "privacy-friendly" US search company is a ridiculous notion.
That's not true. DuckDuckGo is good, though I prefer StartPage because it provides actual Google search results in privacy. But calling DDG shitty just isn't fair.
I think DuckDuckGo mainly uses Yahoo. There was an article recently that said they've got a major new partnership with Yahoo and now use mostly the Yahoo search results and advertising. I'll see if I can find it.
Here. I just found the link to one of the blogs I follow for search. Looks like DuckDuckGo is increasing its use of Yahoo for a big partnership:
No doubt Google has great search results. (Many people just give up privacy because they're so much better.) Solution: Use StartPage for private Google search results. I also like that StartPage has a proxy option so I can visit webpages anonymously.
You are based in the US, use Amazon servers, and are big partners with Yahoo. Yahoo was found to be cooperating with the government,making it possible for federal agents to spy on customers even if they were not suspected of doing anything wrong.
If the US government were to approach you and/or Yahoo and Amazon with a National Security Letter and gag order, how long do you think it would take for DuckDuckGo to become a honeypot? A MASSIVE honeypot.
Your search engine is nice and delivers ok search results from Yahoo/Bing. You have some nice extra features. You also make nice privacy promises. But what good are those promises if the FBI demands that you cooperate with them, Amazon and Yahoo by allowing agents to quietly change things up in the background?
I believe that privacytools was right to take you out of a recommended spot and put in Searx etc. instead. Maybe if the US government sees the damage it's doing to companies like yours, things will change. But until that happens, a "privacy-friendly" US search company is a ridiculous notion.