This DuckDuckGo audit by @purism is a sobering read:
https://source.puri.sm/toolauditor/CEAP/-/blob/master/audits/ddg.md
Remember that DuckDuckGo is venture capital-funded which means that they must exit—either become a publicly-traded multi-billion-dollar company (sell to the public) or sell to one of the incumbents.
(What we need is a publicly-funded but independently run search engine. The EU could create such a thing… if they didn’t have they heads firmly entrenched up Silicon Valley’s bumhole.)
@aetios @danslerush
@aral what do you think about the search engine Qwant? @koherecoWatchdog @purism
@aral @purism @koherecoWatchdog isn't that what searx is?
@aral @purism@librem.one @koherecoWatchdog uff, i wouldn‘t call this an audit but an opinion piece. Nevertheless , seeing this put together in a single document is food for thought at least. The first part reads more like a personal attack to the ceo though. How do you „audit“ the motives of a Person?
@lvdd_ @aral @koherecoWatchdog And quite a few arguments hinge on a vendetta against CloudFlare, which gives it a little whiff of Mr. Gotcha.
@lvdd_ @aral @koherecoWatchdog The telemetry points are very dissapointing though.
@kartoffelmos @aral @koherecoWatchdog Yeah, that's the part that saddens me as well.
BTW: Maybe there is an audit needed somewhere else? ;-)
https://microblog.shivering-isles.com/@sheogorath/106029163052278301
@lvdd_ @aral If we were auditing a FOSS security tool, then indeed the background & motivations would be irrelevant clutter & opinion. But the audit is of a cloud /service/, where trust cannot be disregarded. It would be reckless not to take history & motives into account when assessing trustworthiness. Weinberg's motives where established by his own words in an interview.
Purism has made that repo private. The public replacement URL is here:
http://techrights.org/2021/03/15/duckduckgo-in-2021/
@aral @purism @koherecoWatchdog
Personally I found the non profit German based Metager much better.
It has a v3 onion address too which duckduck has updated to yet.
Plus I can become a member with voting rights that's.
Metager and @codeberg
Are too of the actually good democratic EU alternatives out there.
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@aral I love and you're absolutely right on your conclusion (it's a shame) #GAFArt @purism @koherecoWatchdog